Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmers began to gather at John Brown's farm to stare with the worshiping eyes of religious devotees. Behind the house was a shed with a sign: "Cell Laboratories-Natural Sciences." The cellar of the house contained three barrels covered with scraps of awning. To the uninitiated eye, the barrels seemed to hold only stagnant water, but Brown would murmur: "This is Life...
What of the Night? Biggest crime was the theft from an Orly airfield customs shed of over $168,000 worth of gold, awaiting shipment to the Bank of Indo-China. With a departing Paris-Algiers plane drowning out their noise, three men had broken into the shed after midnight, heaved three kegs of the gold into a small sedan and driven away. Most memorable figure in the drama, though scarcely its hero, was Watchman Jean Quiniou, who arrived on the scene just as the men were driving off. "Had I been two minutes earlier," Watchman Quiniou pointed out philosophically, "they...
Three days later, Llosa finished the revolution as methodically as he had begun it. While the rest of the army closed in on his rebellious garrison-but before a drop of blood was shed-he and seven of his officers beat it across the border to Bolivia. Before going, he sent the change back to the bank-95,000 of the 100,000 soles he had borrowed-along with his personal note for the 5,000 soles which the revolution had cost...
...four candidates held several joint debates. But Margaret Smith carried her campaign to places where a house with a shed is called a village. Whenever she could get away from Washington, she hustled back to Maine. Booted & bemittened, on days when the fog was so thick a man could hardly spit, on days when the natives allowed "it wuz cold enough to freeze two dry rags together," she made the rounds of the state. In Bangor, she fell and broke her arm, stubbornly insisted on keeping a speaking date four hours later...
Last week blood did run. A mob of 3,000, whipped on by Kashani and other mullahs, gathered outside the Majlis building. There they tangled with police and soldiers. Some demonstrators acted on a Persian belief that the barefooted are the fleetest; they shed their slippers and scampered for safety, a slipper tucked under each arm. Among the demonstrators and troops, one was killed, 70 wounded. The Majlis meeting was canceled...