Word: pow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...years, Texaco, Ohio Oil and Bay Petroleum have all put up new office buildings in Denver. Big new reserves have been turned up in Wyoming's Pow der River and Big Horn basins. Promising finds are being developed in the Ute country of adjoining Utah, where the hunt for oil had once been abandoned. But Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak...
...plot revolves around three members of an American intelligence team out to obtain information on German troop movements behind the Rhine. Leader of the team is an American captain. He has no political convictions. He spies because he's ordered to. Tiger, the second agent, is a German POW who has switched sides for better pay. But the central figure is "Happy," a sad-eyed, 19 year old medic, played by Austrian Oskar Werner. He becomes a traitor because he believes in "a life where people are free...
...pow-wow known as the Intro-Fraternity Council, tribe leaders recently vetoed a scheme to steal into Dillon and paint all the footballs green. But the group has tentatively decided to sail up the Charles in canoes before the game tomorrow...
...College, Cambridge University, England, and a veteran of service with the Royal Navy, decided he would see the most interesting part of the United States standing by roadsides with his thumb up on route from Boston to Los Angeles. This letter, written on the eve of the All-Indian Pow-wow from a hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizons, records some of the impressions of a Public School Britisher confronting P. J. Booster...