Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallons a day! They ain't died fast enough, these old men!" Tom Rose, 97-year-old dean of the bench sitters, replied with spirit: "Come here in '77 from Tennessee, been married 76 years, and my wife ain't whipped me yet! What do they want us old folks to do-hide in the woods...
When he heard of the latest lock-in, one American who had spent a lifetime in China threw up his hands. "Believe me, I'm not hysterical," he insisted nervously, "I just want to go home...
...asylum last week he was well enough to talk about getting back to his painting. He still had much to learn so that he could tell the world about his homeland. "I am an African," said Sekoto, "I would be stupid to want to become a European...
Insect Irruptions. Hoffmann & Linduska want no one to think that DDT is foolproof. If used incorrectly, they concede that it can cause major trouble Heavy doses (5 lbs. or more per acre) might poison birds and small mammals and cause insect "irruptions." Aphids (plant lice) sometimes multiply disastrously when too much DDT has killed too many of their natural. enemies. But careful observations made all over the U.S. show that moderate spraying with DDT has little or no effect on birds, reptiles or mammals-and successfully gets rid of the pests...
...nuggets like the story of Black Bart. It concerns itself chiefly with lavishing praise on Wells Fargo executives and listing company assets and dividends through the years. Most readers had better look elsewhere for the sound & fury of early California days ; but ardent collectors of Americana will want to sift its dry-as-dust style for new facts about the old West...