Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more successful in his mission to the English-a negotiator. By eloquent attack, irony, laughter, bounce, by the intrigue of words and a wit that cut everything to ribbons, in a prose so clear, fast and pure that it was like a charmer's music to the snake, Shaw hypnotized England. People became Socialists without knowing it even while they were denouncing Shaw as a mountebank and a playboy. Trotsky lamented that Shaw was a good man fallen among Fabians. But Shaw knew his Englishman and loved him, as the stinging fly loves the thick hide it farsightedly chooses...
...testimony on the original Mundt-Nixon Communist Control Bill before the House Committee on un-American Activities in 1948 he advocated that such legislation should be restricted to the core of the party which controls the membership--on the principle that "if you strike at the head of the snake, it can't strike back...
...high official of the German Communist Party, a trusted friend of Lenin, an associate of Stalin. Reuter not only understood the danger, he knew what had to be done to meet it. Said he: "It is not my business to act like a terrified rabbit staring at a snake." For the past four years he had made it his business to rouse in his countrymen the love of freedom that all men have and to urge the free world to let the Germans have the means of defending themselves...
...Snakes & Pirates. The Portuguese, who first sighted the island in 1590, were so entranced by its vistas of purple mountains rising out of lush, green lowlands that they named it Ilka Formosa (Beautiful Isle). But the Beautiful Isle has its shortcomings. In August and September it is whipped by destructive typhoons. It averages 330 earthquakes a year. Formosa also boasts twelve varieties of poisonous snakes, including the "hundred pace snake." (The legend: the victim walks 100 paces and falls dead...
...beginning an internship at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, and Dr. Smith reported the findings in the current Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. They did not expect the work to found a major business in snakebite cures: the U.S. has only about 2,000 cases of snake bite a year. But there seemed to be no reason why men, as well as mice, should not benefit from the king snake's natural immunity...