Word: pear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles barefoot through snow and prickly pear; the U.S. Cavalry troop with which Bill rode and whose main commissary item was a five-gallon demijohn of whisky and Old Tom Cat gin; the Indian called Young Man Afraid of His Horses. There are the fascinating photographs and lithos, including one of Buffalo Bill with 10 correspondents covering the Indian...
Among the millions of pear-shaped words that poured forth from Los Angeles last week, a few said a lot. Among...
...Private Citizen. That afternoon Syngman Rhee left the presidential palace for Pear Blossom House, his private residence in Seoul. As his bulletproof Cadillac moved along the two-mile route-at first he had insisted that he wanted to walk, "so as not to use government transportation''-his countrymen once again recalled that, for all his political sins. Syngman Rhee. 85, was nonetheless the father of South Korea's independence. The crowds that two days earlier had been calling for his death began to applaud him. And when he reached Pear Blossom House, where he placidly settled down...