Word: slaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first LoPresti story was headlined GIRL SLAIN, with a subhead "Senator Charges," LoPresti accused Dr. Van Waters of attempting to hush up the "murder," and produced a pathetic statement from the girl's parents to the effect that the "victim" wanted desperately to live, and could not have committed suicide. LoPresti himself stated that he had seen signed statements about beatings the girl was alleged to have received, "and about what happened in Dr. Van Waters' little iron curtain empire on the day of the murder." But in spite of certain dubious evidence that LoPresti produced in the American, even...
...this season of the year, says a dry British Admiralty handbook, fog is rare in Beirut. Last week, in that ancient city of Lebanon, where St. George is supposed to have slain his dragon, a winter sun beat fiercely on old walls radiant with purple bougainvillaea and flaming crimson poinsettias. Its rays glittered gaily in the gentle wash of Mediterranean tides on Lebanon beaches, and shone on the sleek hoods of shiny new U.S. taxicabs weaving their way through clusters of bronzed and burnoosed Arabs...
...greenhouse near the slain seedlings were some grown-up bean plants badly infected with powdery mildew. Remembering that actidione was supposed to kill fungi (including mildews), the Michigan scientists sprayed them with a weak solution. In 48 hours the mildew disappeared. They made the solution still weaker and tried it on other afflicted beans. It worked like a charm in dilutions as great as one part per million (1 oz. to 7,497 gals. of water...
...were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about the countesses, ex-countesses and other celebrities in the fight over the will. In a crowded elevator he saw a Times-Herald banner headline: COUNT BERNADOTTE SLAIN. "Gripes," he breathed, "they're getting everyone on the paper...
...atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...