Word: peelings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks, two more foolish monkeys were caught-one by following strategically placed bits of orange peel straight into the mouth of a zoo keeper's sack-but the three remaining holdouts had grown shrewder than ever. In the end, it was only the perversity of fate and their common simianity that brought them down. One day last week, unused to the perils that abound in freedom, one of the monkeys was hit by a passing automobile. As he lay in the road, stunned but unhurt, a lurking keeper took him captive...
...British royal commission investigating the struggle between Arab and Israeli 17 years ago arrived at a tragic conclusion. "Fundamentally," said the Peel Report of 1937, "it is a conflict of right with right." Last week-one world war and one local war later-the judgment was still valid. The Jews were right, because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine, where 1,670,000 today carve out their earthly Zion, became the cradle of their culture and religion. The Arabs were right, because for more than 1,000 years the land had been theirs...
...classic insanity defense under the no-year-old M'Naghten Rules, named for a Scot who in 1843 tried to kill British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, and killed Sir Robert's secretary by mistake. The defense pleaded that M'Naghten was under the delusion that he had a grievance against Sir Robert. M'Naghten was found insane, and acquitted. Shortly afterwards, the famous Rules were formulated; they provide that "every man is presumed sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes": to prove otherwise, it must be shown...
...home. In Hartford, Conn., Moses Berkman's wife, Florence, is especially helpful on stories dealing with art, since she is both an ex-reporter and a member of the Hartford Art School Board. But Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions. "This vegetable has a lot to do with journalistic success. When people are helpful in getting stories for TIME, we always gift them with a gallon or so of my superspecial onion soup ... I love to make onion soup, but hate to peel and slice the onions...
Potato Peeler. An automatic potato-peeler attachment for electric mixers was put on sale by Univex Products Co. of Somerville, Mass. Home-A-Peel, which can also be used to peel apples, onions and oranges, has an abrasive disk which rubs off thin peelings and pulverizes the waste. Price...