Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most regular observers did not even need the one game to be able to recognize the performers. Nearly everybody knows everybody else at a soccer contest anyway, and the great thing about the game is that you can see faces. Few rely on numbers to identify the players. This is in direct contrast with football clashes, where the large throng fulfilling the weekly social requirement forgets uniform numbers between Saturdays and must depend on squad listings...
...they opened gave the Muhutus some new notions about their old masters. In 1957 the Muhutus even formed their own political party. The Watutsis in turn also organized, began badgering Brussels to give them autonomy at once while they still had the Muhutus firmly under their thumb. The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through its new plan to set up elected parliaments in Ruanda and Urundi and turn the two territories into constitutional kingdoms...
...really enduring lore is the local jargon of dark doings-the terms for playing hooky, teasing, scrapping. The extraordinary thing, report the Opies, is the abiding loyalty of children to prattle that seems "more vastly entertaining to them than anything they learn from grownups." TV will never conquer the favorite jump-rope rhyme of little girls throughout much of the English-speaking world...
Pearls Proprietary expects plenty of competition from other pearlers who know a good thing when they see one. At least five more syndicates have set up camp along the coast. But even when they get into production, there is no guarantee that they will be as successful as Pearls Proprietary, which refuses to divulge exactly how it makes its pearls...
...convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than two hours of claptrap, audiences will probably be too tired to care, except about just one thing: Will Miracle never cease...