Word: snake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith is a vender of snake oil, and what he says stinks. I say the same thing of the refuse I read in the Daily Worker. I do not howl for the suppression of the Worker, and neither does the CRIMSON. But Communists howl long and loud about people like Smith, and when the remaining rather few middle class libertarians ask for legal treatment of Smith, they are, inevitably called fascists and Germany is darkly referred to. But I saw Life's photographs showing Communists breaking up a meeting in Hungary, and recall Trotsky's death in Mexico. And here...
...Star game. Calmly, and with relaxed stance, 6 ft. 5. in. Pitcher Blackwell waited for his sign. Catcher Walker Cooper called for a fast, inside pitch. Blackwell rocked into his windup. As he let go, his long right arm snapped around as if he were cracking a snake-whip. His complicated delivery made it look as if he were about to fall down, but the ball plunked squarely into the catcher's mitt. Three pitches later the lead-off man for the highly touted American Leaguers had struck...
...British public, traditionally slow to Snake up its mind, was coming to a reluctant conclusion: that even homegrown Communists are Communists first, Britons second. An incident in Yorkshire last week illuminated the change in sentiment...
...TIME'S editors chose this universal summer pastime for their Fourth of July cover. The photographers, of course, had the first, and toughest, go at the story and got, by all odds, closest to the animals-sometimes too close for comfort. After a day inside the snake house at the San Diego zoo, Photographer Herman V. Wall found that getting out of the way fast at the sound of the rattlesnake's rattle became second nature. Later, while unloading his film holder, Wall learned that the sliding door of the closet in his hotel room gave the same...
Died. Otis William Caldwell, 77, retired education expert (at the University of Chicago and Columbia's Teachers College), author of science and biology textbooks in which he entertainingly debunked old saws (i.e., ostriches hide by burying their heads in the sand; a snake's tail never dies until sundown); in New Milford, Conn...