Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground generators, from Tampa, Fla. to New York City, filled the air with silver iodide particles. Guided by chance, the Norfolk seeders reserved 19 of the 37 situations as "controls," which were left unseeded. The meteorologists were not told which clouds were left unseeded. Both the ravished and the virgin situations were studied carefully. The verdict : "No evidence of large-scale meteorological effects due to seeding." Dr. Spar does not insist that cloud-seeding has no local effects. He is convinced that Project Scud has proved that large-scale weather is not sensitive to man-started chain reactions...
...head start. But after the machine got warmed up, they promised, the campaign would be a real race. Last week in Louisville, Judge Bert Combs, the machine's candidate, opened his headquarters and began to chase Chandler around the state. In Bloomfield he strolled into Virgin's Restaurant and was greeted by the proprietress. "Well," she said, "is this our next governor?" "Well," twanged Combs, "I'm running, anyhow. I don't agree that I'm not as good a campaigner as Chandler. I'm just not a noisy campaigner...
...beleaguered man sat in Freedom Palace, small, chunky, tan-tinted and surrounded by a few intimate possessions-a wooden crucifix, a picture of the Virgin, a slide projector, a gaudy spittoon, books entitled Social Justice and Thought of Gandhi. Before him on a shabby desk lay an ultimatum, a blunt threat to tear down the government of South Viet Nam. An odd procession passed in and out of the palace doors for hours on end to deal with the crisis-three of the man's brothers, one in the cloth of a Roman Catholic bishop; his beautiful, politics-minded...
...Years in 50. Blundell arrived in Kenya 19 years ago as a farm apprentice. He carved out a farm from the virgin bush, and now owns 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum (a plant from which insecticides are made) and dairy-cattle country in the lush Subukia valley. In World War II, he molded a pioneer battalion of brawny East African tribesmen into a crack combat unit, led them through the Ethiopian campaign. Blundell's business connections (breweries, newspapers, canneries) and his bluff man-to-man likableness soon won him the job of leader of the white settlers...
...night last October, Benedetto knelt beside her bed and together they recited a prayer to the Virgin Mary. Maddalena unfastened her shift and Benedetto fired into her breast, killing her almost instantly. He ran into the street weeping. His neighbors wept with him, as did the policemen who led him to jail...