Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chaac was the most important god in the everyday life of the corn-growing Mayans. Betokening his rain-producing powers, he is shown with two pots for water, one adorned with corn symbol. Beneath his ojo de serpiente (eye of the snake) headdress, he presents a double aspect: one side still wears the now-muted green of lush cornfields; the other is the weathered brown of drought...
...contrast to his cool reception from the Legion, Adlai enjoyed a seven-minute, banner-waving, snake-dancing demonstration through the aisles by 1,500 delegates when he appeared at the International Association of Machinists' convention in San Francisco. Said he: "I've concluded after this demonstration to accept your nomination." In San Francisco Stevenson experienced another pleasure: ending 22 months' Army service, son Borden, 24, rejoined his father and brothers, Adlai III, 25, and John Fell, 20. Reunited after a 15-month separation, the Stevenson family went to the I.A.M. convention and flew home to Chicago together...
...hand with the steady, drumbeat assault of infantry battalions and the wild, wind-whipped charge of cavalry. He is even better in tracing the terrible retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armee from Moscow as it drowns in mud, freezes stiff in blizzards, and curls like a dying snake across a winter landscape as desolate as the ninth ring of Hell...
...with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium. At the rap of a gavel from Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, the demonstrators vanished like so many genii...
...snake-dancing, the balloon-popping and the voice-lifting finally died away-and it was this moment when the clear tone could come through. In accepting his nomination, Dwight Eisenhower devoted himself to a single subject: the future. By applying new and progressive ideas to old and established principles, the U.S. through the Republican Party could reach for a greater tomorrow. In that tomorrow, the pain of crippling disease would be vastly reduced, political wisdom would ensure justice and harmony, and the means would be at hand for "the full realization of all the good things of the world...