Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Chinese P.W.s were still joyful. At Inchon, where grey U.S. LSTs waited to take them to Formosa, the P.W.s got a traditional Chinese celebration. Dancers cavorted on stilts, and performed the ancient lion dance, in honor of the great Chinese victory against the explainers; they balanced tiny children atop...
In molding Milwaukee, the Journal has also been molded by it. Milwaukeeans have never taken crime or corruption lightly. Largely the descendants of sturdy Germans and Poles, Milwaukeeans have a healthy respect for civic discipline, orderliness and hard work. While Journal stories may seem too long and stodgy to outsiders...
Volcanos, enthusiastically cited by more imaginative geologists as the cause of glaciers, can actually produce enough dust to blot out much of the sun's radiant heat. Krakatoa's ash, sent sky high in 1833, cut 10 percent of France's sunlight for three years. But reductions in radiant energy...
So all the writers in Climatic Change agree that it is corpuscular radiation--such as comes from sun spot cruptions--that causes climatic variation. For corpuscles are charged, and are attracted to the earth's magnetic poles. When there are more sun spots than usual, the poles warm up; when...
The white boys were members of the famed Koshare troop of Boy Scouts in La Junta, Colo. Founded in 1933 by a railroad contractor named Buck Burshears, the Koshares (Pueblo Indian for clowns) have made a specialty of re-creating Indian dances, faithful to the last feather and as accurately...