Word: tens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Presidents in a week was too much for the U.S. State Department, especially when the last to emerge was such an old Hitler-lover as Arnulfo Arias. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller Jr., who had called on Chanis in the Presidencia only ten days earlier, frostily announced that the U.S. had not yet recognized the new regime. Unperturbed, Arnulfo replied that recognition was "only a question of time." Even Miller had said that after a period of observation, the U.S., following recent hemispheric practice, could consult with other American republics about resuming normal relations...
...most clearly retarded ones had to be taught to wash and feed themselves, and to understand such simple instructions as "Please close the door." For them there were courses in handicrafts, exercises to improve muscle coordination. For those less retarded but held back by emotional disturbances, e.g., a ten-year-old who vomited whenever he became excited, there were courses in reading and writing, and patient guidance...
...salt-marsh species so thoroughly adapted themselves to life with DDT that it took ten times the regular dose to kill their wiggler offspring. The discovery justified an uneasy suspicion held by entomologists: when the weaker members of the tribe are killed off, the survivors, mating together, gradually produce a strain that can ignore...
...Through ten scenes compounded about equally of history and Hollywood, Playwright O'Brien chronicles all Ana's ecstasies and woes. Rich in period costumes, and richer in theatrical cliches,' That Lady accelerates now & then from the speed of a glacier to that of glue. It is enacted, moreover, in whaleboned prose: characters address one another as "dear friend." and favor such pronunciations as "princess...
...Cleveland, Veeck, normally a careful drinker, broke a rule and got tipsy enough to start squirting champagne at his players. They grabbed bottles and began squirting back. When one woman got her dress spoiled Veeck ordered: "Buy her a new $250 one." After 20 cases of champagne and ten cases of bubble ink were gone, he took a look at his wine-soaked ballplayers and ordered new suits for them all. "Greatest guy in the world," everybody said...