Word: ravenal
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...insensitive to its taps." Counting on his fingers, he said: "There's him, there's his wife Maria, his daughter. Think of it, three votes for the Communists. What a disgrace for all of us." Then he brightened. He had hit on a scheme. He knew that raven-locked Maria Conti, the only woman in Riofreddo who wore modern clothes, hated the drudgery of housework: she was a career woman at heart. Swinging his green umbrella. Father Francesco promptly departed to make Maria Conti head of the women's branch of Catholic Action...
Mystery in the Tower. But, as always, the big news of the week was a story of mystery, gore and violence. In the blood-stained Tower of London, MacDonald the Raven had been found brutally murdered, his head severed from his body. When the ravens leave the Tower, says an old legend, Britain's majesty will topple. As it searched in vain for MacDonald's murderer, Scotland Yard suspected the worst. Another raven was hastily imported to maintain the garrison, and an extra guard of six troops thrown about the remaining ravens. Solemnly and in full state...
Visitors, on entering, found themselves dodging a whirling lighthouse powered by an old Victrola motor. They moved on to a "Hall of Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...
...Christian survivors of the weird, 18-month Communist siege of the Chinese walled city of Yungnien were convinced this week that the airplane would never replace the raven as a satisfactory instrument for airborne delivery. For a year Yungnien's dwindling population had been perilously supplied by the Nationalist Government. Great, 60-pound loaves of unleavened bread and cases of canned fish, pitched from low-flying aircraft, had warded off starvation, but they had also: 1) punched gaping holes in almost every roof; 2) leveled some dwellings by direct "hits" on the center beams; 3) killed at least...
Canoes, Then Babies. The consequence is that Raven has spare time on his hands, and little better to do than think and dream. His genius begins to glow. One day, while holding some skins about a fire, he notices the smoke rising straight in the air. A great moment in history: "He did not realize that he was making the first chimney." Another great moment: Raven idly chips away with a flint knife on a fallen log, decides to try an experiment...