Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past year Canal Zone electricians have also found the charred remains of kinkajous, opossums, sloths and monkeys along their wires. A few years ago two parakeets exchanged what has been called history's hottest kiss on the trans-isthmus high-tension line. The parakeets, one on a grounded wire and the other on a live one, touched bills, doused the lights in the Zone. Linemen found them next morning-two tiny fried fowl with bills still touching...
Cinemactress Ann ("The Oomph Girl") Sheridan decided that "women have gone to extremes in nudity . . ." Unless the girls "do something about it," she warned, "the wolf whistle will soon be a thing of the past...
...with that hurdle past, there was no stopping little Ben Hogan in the playoff. Rifling his drives squarely down the fairway, clicking off his approach shots with deadly precision, he held a one-stroke lead over Mangrum at the 16th, three strokes better than Fazio. On the 16th green, Mangrum picked up his ball to blow off a crawling insect. The penalty for violation of the rules cost him two strokes and his last chance to stay in the running. Hogan curled in a clinching 50-foot putt for a birdie on the 17th, wound up with another 69, four...
...Washington, admitting that TV was a factor, the Council of Motion Picture Organizations reported that 580 movie theaters (out of a U.S. total of 19,311) had closed in the past six months...
...some pigeons to peck out a tune on a simplified piano (i.e., the basic theme of Take Me Out to the Ball Game). Exploring his pigeons' personalities, he came to the conclusion that many were prone to superstition. They tended to repeat any action that had, in the past, produced food. Some became addicted to complicated rituals, hoping that twirlings and bowings, repeated in a fixed sequence, would yield a reward of food. Even when these actions had no effect, the pigeons clung to them hopefully...