Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
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...Englishman of the Nuclear Age, convinced that Britain is "a one-shot target," war is so fearful a prospect that it is unthinkable. "There have been a good number of plans for what we should do in an atomic war," says a former British government official. "They all add up to the impossibility of engaging...
Kensetsu Nakayama may have been the only stone-throwing republican in sight, but Akihito's unprecedented marriage was not quite the big draw everyone anticipated. Though officials had expected at least 1,000,000 people to jam the streets, only about half that number showed up; modern Japan preferred to watch the proceedings on television. Back in 1924, the Emperor's wedding had cost $1,500,000; the bill for Akihito's, with all banquets and receptions included, will come to only $140,000. The crowds waved and cheered, but not with the same frenzied banzais that...
Despite the small number of fans, both teams had spirited heckling sections. In fact, Harvard's vocal support caused the Brandeis coach to finish an argument with the umpire by yelling roughly "Oh shut up" at the varsity bench