Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Argyll wi' the King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...
Acres of solidly packed humanity, stretching as far as the eye could see, paid the final mass tribute to the President. Nehru said it was the greatest civic reception he ever has seen at the sprawling Ram Lila Park between Old and New Delhi. It was the largest crowd Eisenhower ever has faced...
...stage of infinite beauty and variety. Head in the lap of the treacherous Delilah, his Samson sleeps in the foreground of a landscape that is as weird and as familiar as a dream. Behind a bare tree in the background hover the Philistines, ready to pounce upon the sheared ram of God. Watteau's study of lovers in a park makes black, white and red stand for all the colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery corner to Goya's Two Prisoners in Irons can be like taking...
Anticlericalism was for more than a century the prime tenet of the Liberal parties that flourished in Latin America; Liberals effectively broke the Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever...
...total car sales: 7,000,000 next year v. the expected 6,400,000 total for 1959. Chrysler set no prices on its full-sized models, which retained the low, long look, with tail fins still the distinguishing feature. For its V-8 engines, Chrysler has developed a new ram induction system which provides enough extra boost for passing at speeds from 35 to 75 m.p.h. that the use of "kickdown," or passing gears, is unnecessary. For the new Dodge Dart and Plymouth, Chrysler has developed a new six-cylinder engine which, as in the Valiant, will be mounted...