Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived not only to see a third phase of German history, but to mold...
Pella showed great political skill in moving in first for a showdown with his own party; for neither De Gasperi nor the heads of other factions in the party were ready for Pella to fall. This week Pella called in newspapermen and confidently announced that the "transition government" phase was over; in the new year he would set up a new kind of government with new men, pledged to 1) better distribution of wealth; 2) better housing; 3) defense of the state; 4) working toward "truly international solidarity...
...locust's behavior is as unpredictable as the areas in which it appears. For years the Schistocerca lives a solitary, law-abiding life, the members of the clan thinly scattered over the countryside. Then, suddenly, what entomologists call the gregarious phase begins. The scattered insects somehow get together and converge in a huge, destroying swarm, leaving the land ruined wherever they pass...
Like a fresh tennis ball, Cress loses a little fuzz after each encounter with life, but goes on bouncing through another dozen escapades, all readable, if predictable. There is the schoolgirl crush on her piano teacher, a puppy-love phase with the spindly, spectacled whiz of the Latin class, the first cigarettes, first house parties, first pimples...
...kitchen-loving housewife, Dallas' Linz Bros, displayed a bracelet bangle in the form of a 14-carat gold sink with tiny diamonds streaming from the faucets. Price: $200. Another Linz offering: a man's pocket watch, which tells the day of the week, phase of the moon, date of the month and year, and strikes the quarter hours in pretty chimes...