Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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squads, rebounded this week to snake...
...most painful struggle is entitled "The Snake Man." This tale tells of a spy who carries a snake beneath his coat. Unless the spy was ticklish and the snake had a cold nose, there is nothing even laughable about the entire affair...
Into the hopper of the Federal Power Commission last week plopped a report from the Interior Department discussing the possibility of building a new federal high dam on the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. The report, as it stood, was a drastic modification of former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay's stand against the celebrated Hell's Canyon federal dam, a stand which some Western Republicans have blamed for the defeat of many a Western Republican candidate last November (including Oregon's candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug McKay...
...like McKay, holds to the Eisenhower concept of private-public partnership in river development, he takes a broader view of what can be accomplished. Studying the private low dams that McKay favored, Seaton noted that they offered only limited flood control, failed therefore to achieve full development of the Snake's potential. One high dam (at Pleasant Valley, downstream from Hell's Canyon) would generate more power and provide more flood control than two McKay-type low dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep, he explained to the Federal Power Commission. (Before the FPC is an application from...
...SNAKE DOING IN THE STARLET'S BED?) to slick women's magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, which inquired recently: ARE WE COMMERCIALIZING SEX? (Conclusion: "Maybe.") Many other mass-circulation magazines have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved...