Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them were two lesser mesas where parched yellow cornstalks rustled in the dry breeze. Above them, a cloudless sky. Across the dusty desert road and up the steep ascent to the topmost mesa went scores of automobiles packed with curious white men & women. Their interest in the famed Hopi Snake Dance was whetted by the sound of muffled drum beats as they neared the grey mud-&-stone village of Hotevilla. But the Hopi, who had heard those drum beats all night, paid little heed to visitors. Their minds behind weirdly painted faces were intent on a thing savage, religious...
...Snake...
Near Kolhapur, India, a snake dropped from a tree onto a ferryboat. The passengers rushed to the other side of the boat, which turned over, drowned...
...foreign currency values on imports; 12) the Department of Justice's handling of Cleveland's Union Mortgage Co. case; 13) water resources of the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Kern Rivers; 14) rents in the District of Columbia; 15) campaign expenditures; 16) R. F. C. loans; 17) the Columbia and Snake rivers; 18) Government economy; 19) the St. Lawrence Seaway treaty...
...knots. Dr. Ditmars watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...