Word: rub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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there's the rub, For in that sleepe of death, what dreames
...India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes. It looked like a Viking galley, and standing in its prow were warriors dressed like Viking sea kings of old. At Calcutta's Out-ram Ghat pier, one stepped ashore and delivered a pole-sized replica of a new cigarette made by India's Imperial Tobacco Co. Its name: Sea King...
...leading French pediatrician who owns a chateau near Chartres. Rabbits are not public enemies in France. Their natural enemies, including 1,800,000 Frenchmen with hunting licenses, keep them from eating the country bare. But. Dr. Armand-Delille's estate was skittering with rabbits, so he decided to rub them out in the latest scientific manner...
...being drawn on maps while the war went bloodily on. In Vienna, the Russians relaxed their iron hand. In Belgrade, they made overtures to the heretic, Tito. They even confessed that in postwar policy they had made some "mistakes." All along the globecircling seam where the West and Communism rub together abrasively, the stagnant air of cold war began to stir with Kremlin gestures of concession, of adjustment, even of retreat (see below...
...novice, Sister Dominique, who had once been a student at the University of Aix-Marseilles. Every morning after Mass, the two sallied forth alone in their blue and grey habits on long walks through sections of the city where nuns and priests-or anyone with a few pesos to rub together-are seldom to be seen. At last the horrified mother superior summoned them and demanded an explanation. "We are searching for our future home," replied Sister Marie Aline serenely. "But it is not up to us to decide exactly where we should settle. Jesus will let us know...