Word: waked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiral for coffee futures got under way. Actually, says FTC, the frost damage was relatively minor. Brazil's 1954-55 crop was less than 1,000,000 bags (8%) below the 1953 levels. But instead of a 15% or 20% price rise as might be expected in the wake of an 8% crop loss, Brazilian coffee futures climbed...
...about Muggs's narrowly stealing the coronation telecast from Queen Elizabeth. NBC Pressagent Mary A. Kelly, one of Muggs's entourage of five, wrote home excitedly that Parisians were exclaiming, "Regardez la petite béte!" and that "even Robespierre would have admired the mobs in our wake...
...other gorgeous flowers (a director spotted her on the street), and that she probably has no more talent than it takes for a black-eyed Susan to allure a bee. Beauty she has to a thrilling degree-the helpless beauty of a dark little nymph who seems to wake the satyr in men. But the secret of Gina's success is not beauty, not brains, not even luck. Hers is the first appearance in sunny Italy of a stormy Hollywood phenomenon: the Star Type...
Geologists find coral atolls as fascinating as detective stories. The clues lie strung through the earth's warm seas in festoons of ringlike islands, like Wake Island in the Pacific (see cut). And for more than a century the geologists have been debating what the clues really mean. The most familiar theory is that atolls started as coral reefs fringing a small island. When the island sank (or the sea rose), the ring of coral kept growing upward, eventually forming an atoll with a lagoon where the island used...
Inside Sauter-Finegan (Victor LP). The strange land of heightened sensation that is the Sauter-Finegan band, where low is growlier, sharp is edgier, and no sounds are untinted. Sample titles: 10,000 B.C., Finegan's Wake...