Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composer was unknown, but the song itself was being sung at nationalist meetings throughout the territory. "Congoland, land of our forebears," ran the opening lines, "we will fight for your freedom, if blood must run in streams." Last week, after the worst eruption the Congo had seen in a decade, blood did in fact run in Léopoldville...
...when he was warned by a passing holy man that he would not long survive her marriage. Shahazadi Pasha, now a 40-year-old spinster, often used to drive around Hyderabad with her father in one or another of the old cars he thriftily uses, but she is seldom seen any more...
...distant stars. The reason is that stars shine in their own light, revealing much about themselves to astronomers' spectroscopes. The solar system's planets are visible only in the reflected light of the sun. Their spectra carry little firm information, and the details that can be seen on their surfaces are clear enough to excite but too vague to satisfy human curiosity...
...definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera, a puppet play, an Everyman performance, on merely a piece of cheese and a little spaghetti. Faced with the choice between either a good meal or another tankful of gasoline and an opera ticket, they invariably renounce the meal -as they should...
...four of the finest players amateur hockey fans have ever seen in this country--Igor Debonskii and Alexis Gury shev who each turned in the hat trick, Victor Priazhnikov who had two goals and an assist, and goalie Nicholas Puchkov--the Russians skated too fast, passed too accurately and stick-handled too well for the bewildered varsity...