Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage they look a little like a guards regiment on parade. They march on from opposite wings in cadenced step, and at times all 106 of them sit down in a single movement. Seated, they sometimes look to the casual observer about as animated as the tenants of a wax museum. But the appearance is deceiving. The Leningrad, now on its first tour of the U.S., is one of the world's great orchestras...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen desperately search for wax to make a light in a bomb-crushed cellar, but the darkness of death inevitably comes...
Under the Baby. To the bureau, enforcement is the key to solving the narcotics problem. Some 46,000 known addicts illegally buy heroin in the U.S., many of them from pushers. The Chinese Communists wax rich by exporting large amounts of heroin to the free world, much of which ends up in the U.S. To combat the traffic in narcotics, the bureau's agents work under cover, infiltrate gangs, even act as couriers between criminals. Often they have to shoot it out with narcotics racketeers. They have to watch for dope in some of the most unlikely places-hidden...
...society-or even aristocracy-her husband represents another. For Winston Guest's mother was a Phipps, and the Phippses are a dynastic family-a ruling house represented by a trust, which takes care of all the family finances down to their bills for shoes and ships and sealing wax...
...Wax Boom, by George Mandel. In the darkness of modern combat, a symbolic company of infantrymen meet death by candlelight...