Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
More recently, Venture decided that maybe he might, after all, offer a miracle. He had read news dispatches about artificial rainmaking in the U.S., resolved to have a go at it. He equipped a Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
...years, despite two wars and in the face of obstacle after obstacle, HDC has managed to offer two productions annually. Now, with HTW standing as a strong rival organization to HDC, the University is threatened with a renaissance of undergraduate dramatic activity after the low plumbed in the late thirties. The University has evidence of strong undergraduate support for a War Memorial Student Activities Center, which according to plans would include an auditorium theatre. If SAC should be vetoed as a War Memorial, future historians would be able to trace an attitude that was born in Puritan times, and that...
...offer incense to the death of the Katayama cabinet," said one soused saboteur, as another slow-motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
...Austin, station KTBC gently but firmly resisted an eager offer from Cook's Funeral Home to buy 30-second commercials before & after the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of "Nobody Lives Forever...