Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working with the Europeans and Africans of Nyasaland and Rhodesia, may I protest the one-sided view of the troubles in Central and East Africa presented by TIME? First let us recognize that there is very little resemblance between the primitive African and the Negro in the U.S. and West Indies. The latter are civilized and educated people, having lived the Western way of life for five or six generations. The African, an extremely likable and excitable person, still thinks and lives in a world of his own, and cannot catch up in less than two generations, however hard...
Rifles & Cribs. The fire started early one gusty afternoon in a trash barrel behind an old folks' home outside of town. In an hour the flames had reached the first trees above, and the whole ridge to the north and west of town roared as the fire leaped through treetops, gobbling up great stands of ponderosa pine in one crackling rush. Townsmen quickly set to work spraying and shoveling under flames that licked down toward houses at the edge of town. National Guardsmen rolled in with bulldozers to make a firebreak. Fire fighters rushed in from Colorado, Montana...
Zane Grey published 44 novels while he lived. Horse Heaven Hill is No. 63, and graves the same message as all the rest on the writer's literary headstone: Here lies Zane Grey, a romantic dentist from Zanesville, Ohio, who went West as a young man. There he became a master at extracting the purple from the sage...
...Harm's Way." Born John Paul, the man who won fame as John Paul Jones went to sea at 13, by 21 was master of a merchant ship in the West Indies trade. But at the port of Scarborough, Tobago, in 1773, he got into a savage shipboard brawl with mutinous seamen, ran one through the body with his sword, and fled for his life. He assumed the name of John Jones, sailed to America, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, under the name John Paul Jones, offered his services to the Continental Navy...
Blue Angel. The 30-year-old Dietrich dazzler updated, with sultry Swedish Actress May Britt as the Berlin Lorelei whose siren song lures West Germany's Box-Office Idol Curt Jurgens onto the rocks...