Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Every day, crowds of devout waded into the water, shouting: "O Goddess Ganges, holiest of rivers, lead me to salvation!" Children screamed as they were dragged into the icy water. Barren couples bathed hand-in-hand, hoping the holy water would make them fertile. Pregnant women came seeking the blessing of the Ganges for their unborn babies; 28 of the babies were born during the festival...
...central government quickly set about gobbling up its member states, wiping out the federal system he had sponsored. During the January revolt of former Dutch Captain "Turk" Westerling, the Sultan of West Borneo appeared to be completely loyal to the government, continued to attend cabinet meetings and make the rounds of official parties...
...okay guy with a wonderful, thoughtful disposition," burbled Songstress Georgeanne ("Gigi") Durston, 22, but her romance with Elliott Roosevelt, 39, was "all over-as of today ... I have decided that Elliott and I simply could not make a go of married life...
Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick spared no expense to make his art collection one of the best in the world. When he died in 1919 he left $16 million worth of Rembrandts, El Grecos, and English, Italian and French old masters in his block-long mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
Bats can and do make audible cries, but the sounds they use to navigate by are ultrasonic-much too high-pitched (up to 120,000 cycles per second) for human ears to hear. So Dr. Griffin rigged a special microphone and hitched it to a cathoderay oscillograph. Each inaudible peep from a defrosted bat made a measurable pattern of light on the oscillograph screen...