Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...None of these happenings was supernatural. The village and its fields stand on a thin crust of soft clay over a vast labyrinth of caves and tunnels some 30 miles long where, since Roman times, men have undermined their homes by quarrying out the sandstone to build them. The quarries, abandoned in the 1900s, were put to new use in 1918 when Willem Heynen and other villagers discovered that the cave galleries had the ideal temperature and humidity for growing mushrooms...
...ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken by his joy ride, the Senator checked in later at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital, where the medics plastered a cast...
Soon there were none. The departures were obviously ordered by the Communists. But when the Dutch took their problem to the Foreign Office, they were firmly told that this was a matter for the state employment office. So sorry, said the state employment office, but this was the responsibility of the Foreign Office...
...chief of state, De Gaulle will be the direct successor to two Presidents of the Fourth Republic, two Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
...West and Up. None of the problems are so difficult that businessmen, with work, can not solve them. Looking ahead, the U.S. can thank its lucky stars for a technology