Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said bitter Correspondent Newman: "The purpose of the new visa system is ... to exclude an accredited correspondent without resorting to the clumsy device of expelling him on trumped-up charges of espionage." Then, in the "fresh air" of Paris, Newman began a 15-installment, uncensored report on life in Russia...
Incorrigible Punster Marx often uses the double play on words-no matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make...
Beginning next week, the U.N. General Assembly goes on television with a commercial sponsor: the Ford Motor Co. While the session lasts (probably more than a month), Ford will pick up the tab for 15 hours a week (CBS-TV, 11 a.m.1 p.m., 3-4 p.m. Mon. through Fri.) over...
Bug Eat Bug. Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth...
What Is Life? Selman Abraham Waksman, famed U.S. expert at stirring up civil war among the bugs, was born in 1888 in the little Ukrainian village of Priluka, go miles from Kiev. His father Jacob spent most of his time making copper kitchenware in the nearby town of Vinnitsa, and...