Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Repaid Loyalty. In his home state of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and the birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, Shastri became the protege of the Hindu traditionalist leaders, Puru-shottamdas Tandon and Pandit Pant. With independence in 1947, he rose through the state government to become Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh...
Panic & Poo-Poo Guns. Egged on by a Liberation Committee agent, a loosely organized band of 5,000 pygmoid Bafulero tribesmen rose against the Congolese army. Armed with poisoned arrows and "poopoo guns" (homemade muzzle loaders that fire bolts and nails) and anointed with mai Mulele (Swahili for "water of Mulele"), the 5-ft.-tall warriors believed they had been filled with a juice that made them invulnerable to bullets. In their first encounter with government troops, screaming, white-painted Bafulero died in droves under a hail of bullets near the village of Kamaniola...
...tired, drawn figure rose wearily in his seat in Brazil's Senate chamber and switched on a microphone. Gone was the familiar exuberance, the wall-to-wall smile. "I am overcome by the most terrible sadness I have ever known in my whole public life," said Brazil's onetime President. "In the expectancy that the cancellation of my political rights, and therefore my rights as a citizen, will be confirmed, I believe it is my duty to direct a few words to the Brazilian nation...
Countdown. The door under the dark marquee at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater creaks open. Someone looks out, checks the field, withdraws. And then, blast off. Out of the stage door steps Elizabeth Taylor. She is wearing yellow, or lavender, or green, or rose, or some other color, never anything she has ever worn before or will again. The audience surges forward. She crosses the sidewalk in seven steps or three seconds. Hamlet follows her, not all that melancholy.* She flashes a sudden dazzling, billiondollar smile and slips into the limousine purring in wait at the curb. It pulls out slowly...
Supermarket business is still expanding, but it is not as super as before. Last year fewer new supermarkets opened than at any time since 1947. Sales of the ten largest chains rose only 3.3% above the 1962 mark. And the biggest of all retailers, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., registered a decline...