Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stranger runs well-documented risks in the Peruvian jungleland east of the Andes. Some have had their heads lopped off and shrunken as trophies; others have been eaten alive by ants; still others have been emasculated like steers, fattened on oily berries and served up to cannibals. Leonard Clark of San Francisco is an experienced jungle man who risked these dangers to look for gold and lived to tell about it. In The Rivers Ran East, he has written one of the most rousing adventure yarns of the season...
...youngster who wanted to distinguish himself as an athlete, Doug Hepburn of Vancouver began with disadvantages: a congenitally deformed right foot and shrunken right leg. But a dozen years ago, when Doug was 14, he set himself a goal. He told his mother: "I'm going to be the strongest man in the world...
...Nominated Kenton R. Cravens, St. Louis banker and longtime friend of Treasury Secretary Humphrey, to be head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Cravens' mission will be to bury the RFC by June 1954, transfer its shrunken functions to the Commerce Department...
...Saudi Arabia (it also owns 40% of Italy's Linee Aeree Italiane. 5½% of Philippine Air Lines, 15½% of National Greek Airlines). At home, T.W.A.'s once-demoralized management is a smoothly functioning team. Says Damon, grinning: "We've got a wonderful bunch of shrunken empires...
Returning undergraduates and wandering alumni will face a shrunken stadium this fall when they view the football players in action for the first time. Approximately 20,000 seats have disappeared with the passing of the steel stands over the summer, and the structure has now returned to its original and classic horseshoe shape. Now the capacity of the oldest college stadium in America is 37,114, compared to last year's 56,495 seats...