Word: stampedes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Bludgeoned to death," the Chief was saying. "Brutally mauled and horribly mutilated . . . No means of identification . . fingerprints removed simply by cutting off the tips of the fingers . . . only shred of evidence was a circle with a Roman numeral seven stamped on the sole of the right foot."
> Bold Lad: a three-length victory in the Mowlee Purse; at Aqueduct. Fully recovered from the painful "splints" (tumorlike growths) on his forelegs that had kept him out of action since last October, Wheatley Stable's six-time stakes winner sped six furlongs in 1 min., 10 2/5 sec...
Dorfman takes infinite pains to achieve exact historical accuracy, down to the last human hair inserted in the back of a plastic hand. He studied 18th century treatments for smallpox at the Army Medical Museum to get the pockmarks on George Washington's face just right. Henry Ford'...
Well trained in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, the Chinese foot soldier is amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery...
Not Known. As one result of the Italian practice of "stable concubinage," the registration papers of at least a million Italian children were marked with an "N.N." (for Nemini Notus, meaning roughly "Not known to anyone") that stamped the children for life. Finally a law was passed in 1955 erasing...