Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranged from Bareilly and Srinagar down to Pondicherry and Tanjore, keeping an old pro's eye, cocked and wide, on the mysterious ways of the land - and on the politics of Prime Minister Nehru. At his New Delhi home, sacred cows browse in the flower beds ; snake charmers with their cobras, fortunetellers and holy men with begging bowls crowd the veranda, push in on him. "I feel them at my shoulder as I work," says Campbell...
...providing arms "to governments whose primary international objective is to destroy a neighboring state with which they refuse to establish peace," and his government asked the U.S. to restore the "balance of power" by selling arms to Israel. Cried Eban: "Can Israel wait like a rabbit for the snake to get big enough to devour...
Free Beer. The borough of Brooklyn (pop. 2,848,000) erupted with joy over their beloved Dodgers' first triumph. A blizzard of paper and ticker tape fluttered from office buildings. Barkeepers served beer on the house, and lunchroom operators handed out free hot dogs. Snake-dancing and parades went on all night. Life was so complete for one Brooklyn rooter that he tried to end it with a suicide leap off Brooklyn Bridge...
...Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade of the Northwest might be diverted from British Canada to the U.S. . Eighteen months later -on Nov. 15, 1805- they reached the Pacific Ocean. This month Lewiston, Idaho, and cities of the Northwest in the valleys of the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia Rivers, are observing the 150th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition...
...horses to keep alive. Emerging on the western slope, in Idaho's Weippe Prairie, they gorged on camas bulbs (which made them sick) and dog meat (which they found surprisingly good). On the banks of the Clearwater River they built canoes and floated down the Clearwater and the Snake to the Columbia River near present-day Pasco, Wash. Harassed by squat, fish-eating Indians, who tried to steal their possessions, they navigated the Columbia's treacherous rapids and passed through the Cascades...