Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with utter horror in TIME, Aug. 11 of the inhumane slaughtering of animals. I can't understand how such horrible methods could have gone on so long in a supposedly civilized country. If humane methods will boost meat prices, let them...
...arid Sonora state, just south of the U.S. border, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz stood in the hot sun one day last week, read aloud a decree that expropriated a huge chunk of U.S. -owned property - the 400,000-acre Cananea Ranch. As thousands of peasants, swirling on the dry. sandy earth, shouted "Sonora for the Sonorans!". he raised the Mexican flag over the last of the great Mexican latifundios (big estates) and took it from the family of Texan William C. Greene, which had owned it for 58 years. The Sonora Legislature declared...
...pill that costs 15? looks like your best bet to protect against atomic-bomb radiation," read an A.P. dispatch last week out of Burlington, Vt., citing "top nuclear scientists." The A.P. went on: "You could store it in your medicine cabinet just like aspirin ... If you had 15 minutes' warning of an atomic or H-bomb attack, you could gobble one of the pills." Unfortunately, all this was Utopian wishful thinking...
...roll, Domenico still managed to save some memory of the guitars and ritual-dance rhythms of his gypsy ancestors. The freshness of his singing, the unlettered freedom of his song itself are probably due in part to the fact that he has yet to find time to learn to read or write music. His father taught him simple tunes when he was still a barefoot boy barely as big as his guitar. He composed his first song at 14, has been playing ever since...
...book, a 17th century antipapist bestseller - The English - American his Travail by Sea end Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's-can be read for its wonderful period style and detail, but also as a curious psychological document of a man both brave and devious, mean and daring. As edited by Archaeologist-Author J. Eric S. Thompson, it makes a great story...