Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge City Council yesterday refused to consider a motion asking the city to "create a unit within the Police Department for the purpose of ascertaining and making known the witting and unwitting adherents of the communist cause...
...roulette bug, began to drop as much as $1,200 at a session. The following year, when tax inspectors handed him a bill for nearly $8,000 in back taxes, Roden, unable to pay, remembered the dying days of World War II, when he kept his retreating Wehrmacht unit in meat by slaughtering cattle in the open fields of East Prussia. With Ewald Mischker, 48, a Düsseldorf stockyard worker, as his accomplice, Roden began to prey on the North German range...
...prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse to deliver the good Indian to the summit. Upshot: the bad Indians lose...
...Club's advisors--Lt. N. M. Tollefson of the Navy ROTC, and Capt. O'Connor of the Air Force ROTC unit--run a weekly ground school where members can study weather, navigation, care of aircraft, and civil flight regulations...
...paintings: Mad Margaret and Flemish Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...