Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The nation's news was dominated by two names: Joseph R. McCarthy and J. Robert Oppenheimer. In most respects they are poles apart; hardly anyone admires both. Yet last week's news about them called attention to a characteristic that Oppenheimer and McCarthy have in common: the tendency...
8 a.m. Old Les Murray waddles into Stall 6, trustfully sits on the straw directly beneath Native Dancer and begins wrapping training bandages around both fore ankles. Bill Winfrey, standing by and sipping coffee, does not intend to work the Dancer hard but merely to "blow him out"?let...
Toppling Empires. Imperialism's first great setback is easily pinpointed. It happened near Concord, Mass, one spring day in 1775. The American Revolution served notice that independence can be not only a faith but a fact. The faith spread like quicksilver-to Latin America, where Bolivar ousted the Spaniards...
All this information will be sent back to earth by the Mouse's automatic radio. Professor Singer suggests that the Mouse be put on an orbit that passes over both the poles. The earth will turn below the orbit, but the Mouse will cross one of the poles every...
American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have...