Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to take off the women's shoes on Easter Monday and the women took off the men's shoes on Easter Tuesday.) In Bohemia, the women pay the men for the Easter Monday beating they get. The payment: dyed eggs. The beatings and egg-giving occur in the morning. In the afternoon everybody-tired, bruised and happy-goes egg rolling. In Scotland, bannocks (wheel-shaped oatmeal cakes) were rolled down the hillsides, later gave way to hard-boiled eggs. Across the Irish Sea the custom was known as "trundling," and one Irish historian noted suspiciously that...
That this could occur, and that the Post Office probably never gave it a second thought is not surprising. For years, the name "Harvard" has been equivalent in many minds to "communist", or at least to "pinko...
...Genetic mutations will definitely occur, as soon as they cross the threshold into the radioactive danger zone," said Paul M. Doty, associate professor of Chemistry...
Cosmic Tackle. Strangely, the épée-a triangular-bladed descendant of the old dueling rapier-has become thoroughly enmeshed in modern gadgetry. The épée wielder can score by pinking his opponent anywhere on the body; often touches occur almost simultaneously. To give the judges a break, today's épées are equipped with electric switches in their tips. Wires run down the fencers' arms and out the tails of their jackets to reels that are mounted at the end of the fencing strip. A solid touch with either...
Jessica Tandy, as the submissive and then rebellious wife of crusty Bennett Honey, seems somewhat less diabolical than she should be. Miss Tandy is just too charming. Her attractiveness works against her, asserting itself throughout the evening and deadening the emotional explosion that should occur when she suddenly walks out on her husband. But Frances Woodbury, who substituted for Dorothy Stickney last Saturday as the wife of Curtis Honey, is delightfully Addamsian. Behind everything she says-even the tune she whistles-lurks the desire to eliminate her crochety old husband and enjoy a subsequent life of freedom and wealth...