Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Greeks have a word for it! You speak of the fact that DDT has become ineffective against mosquitoes [TIME, Dec. 5]. Last summer while I was in Crete, a friend of mine said: "Yes, we have flies, and they have been Mithridated." Mithridates was King of Pontus just before...
INCIDENTALLY, TIME IGNORED THE MAIN POINT OF MY . . . COMMENT TO CARLETON COLLEGE SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS ABOUT COLUMNISTS: "THEY ARE MODERN EQUIVALENTS OF THE MUCKRAKERS OF LINCOLN STEFFEN5' AND IDA TARBELL'S DAY OR THE PAMPHLETEERS OF TOM PAINE'S TIME. MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE THOSE WRITERS...
We would appreciate it, however, if you would correct the figures concerning untoward incidents in Okinawa during the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 1949. The correct official combined Army-Air Force figures for this period disclose that there were six murders, eight rapes, seven robberies and 23 assaults. TIME...