Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point eight FBI agents, who had been waiting outside, went into action. There was a spray of gunfire; Wayne Long fired back, injuring one of the FBI men. Then Long himself, after dashing for a block, fell to the ground wounded...
Across the fertile countenance of the nation, the farmer bent his back in the June sun and worked the land. He labored wherever the earth lay open, the rain fell and the sun shone-from the lumpy flats of Aroostook County, Me., where the summer potatoes germinated in their dirt hills, to California's Imperial Valley, polka-dotted by the gold of new oranges and ripening honeydews...
...year of 1263, was tortured by doubts whether the wafer he consecrated really became Christ's body, as church doctrine said it was. Miraculously at Bolsena, a small town near Orvieto, the Host began to bleed in Peter's hands. At Mass, spots of blood fell from the wafer onto the corporal, a white linen cloth upon which the chalice rests while on the altar...
Much different was the behavior of pigeons trained to compete in fierce individual enterprise. Pigeons that got this conditioning were put on opposite sides of a small table and urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...
...Stock Exchange opened, a flurry of selling began. There was no patent reason for the selling except some profit taking and perhaps some nervousness over the market's long climb. By 11 a.m., the scramble to sell was so great that the Exchange's high-speed ticker fell four minutes behind the actual trading. In two hours the Dow-Jones industrial average, which had opened at 222.30, plunged to 218.66, wiping out all the gains of the past four weeks...