Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...many as a confusion. The disillusion with the failures of the Labor government, in which the Webbs and many of his Fabian friends served, turned Shaw back to his own inherited responses. The old 18th Century taste for autocrats revived. So Mussolini was admired, Hitler was given a hand and Stalin was exalted. Their virtue was that they were practical. Shaw appeared to agree with the scientists that what succeeds is good and he had been careful, as a Marxist, to say that capitalism had been good in the days when it succeeded. Failure, like poverty, had always been...
...March five youngsters with ringworm were allowed back in school too soon after routine treatment by their family doctors. All summer the disease spread (encouraged by a long damp spell and barbers' unsterilized clippers). Not until school opened did authorities realize how far it had got out of hand...
With gentle urging, but always keeping Country Boy in easy, deliberate hand, Norma cleared jump after jump cleanly, guided willing Country Boy to a flawless ride-and the first U.S. team victory in the National in two years. The appreciative roar from the usually staid crowd would have done credit to a fight mob cheering a knockout...
...account: "I heard what I thought was a firecracker; then several more ... I looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up ... I called to the chauffeur to stop ... I motioned to have [Cermak] put in the back of the car ... I put my left arm around him and .my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse. He slumped forward . . . That trip to the hospital seemed 30 miles long ... I said: 'Tony, keep quiet-don't move. It won't hurt you if you keep quiet...
After a few minutes, Munch waved his hand...