Word: wagonsful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week from all over India the Lohars converged on Chitor. In the great plain below the landship fortress, their 4,000 bullock carts were drawn up in huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and...
The circus Willi Holzmuller confidently invaded Spain in spring last year with 125 wagons, 70 performers and a splendid menagerie of elephants, lions, bears, dogs, horses, ponies and monkeys. But Spaniards are not great circus fans. By the time the circus reached Manzanares, business was so bad that 30 performers...
Televiewers are hardened both to superlatives and long commercials. But last week, in hailing the 1955 models of automobiles, the networks pulled out even more stops than usual. On CBS's Shower of Stars, Sponsor Chrysler gave its viewers almost a solid hour of commercial as it unveiled an...
Other remedies being tried: ¶ Tiny churches are being "relocated"a euphemism for merging them with the nearest bigger church. ¶ The major denominations are cutting off funds for church building in areas that are already overchurched. ¶ The National Council is taking over the work of the denominations...
The countryside is still liberally sprinkled with hardy oldtimers who came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S...