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Word: outspread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1953-1953
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...larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh's five-year-old son is already mastering the fine points of the game -"The stealthy approach, net bag between finger and thumb, the gradual moving closer and closer to the butterfly sitting on a flower head with wings outspread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Butterfly Farmer | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...They got a tremendous reception, especially when word got around that the trucks had a juju that could forecast betrothal dates for the village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah, "rotting in jail." Outside Jamestown prison, where Nkrumah sat mending fish nets in Cell No. 9, demonstrators sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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