Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is a war not of position but of glancing blows against a disappearing enemy. Mount your strength, and the enemy disappear like sparrows. It is a war where the countryside changes hands every night and where the peril of a road can be measured by whether it reopens each...
The Moslems (no Hindu will do this work because of religious scruples) stuffed the monkeys into bamboo cages and carried them on shoulder poles into Lucknow. The train hauled them 260 miles to New Delhi. There, 1,000 specimens carefully chosen for health and size (4 to 8 Ibs. apiece...
Expose. In Pamplona, Spain, magistrates at the city courthouse learned that 14 copper lightning rods, installed to safeguard the court during the perennial thunderstorms, had been sold on the black market in 1952 and secretly replaced by painted wooden poles.
¶The Antietam's glow came from specially mounted 25-foot poles holding 800 flashbulbs which were synchronized with a camera mounted in a Navy blimp.-ED.
For the layman in the field, many of the Museum's exhibits verge upon the spectacular. Twenty-five foot totem poles dwarf the onlooker in the hall of Indian ethnology; in the Bowditch Hall of Middle American culture, huge casts of Mayan, statuary tower two floors in height. On Peabody...