Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
...salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
...from her election as first woman president of the 47-nation Federation Aeronautique Internationale, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran rested up on the 600-acre California ranch of Financier Husband Floyd Odium, whooped happily about the job: "Great guns! It never dawned on me a woman would be elected, considering the number of countries involved." Future assignments for Flyer Cochran: two trips to Paris for F.A.I. meetings, an astronautics convention at The Hague in August, the federation's general conference next May in Moscow...
...have resisted for some weeks the temptation to tell my own English muffin story, but feel unable to do so any longer. while studying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I occasionally ate at a cafe run by a number of hyphenated-Americans who have origins ultimately traceable to Ireland. The customers, too, were mostly "Irishmen...
Presumably, the total irresponsibility of the action will not go unpunished. The University tolerates or overlooks a number of manifestations of student irrationality, but in this case leniency scarcely seems in order. To find the two students involved and to treat them in more or less the same fashion they treated their victims seems the only way to bring them to their senses. Hopefully, one lesson in good manners is all they will need...