Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Major General Lee Ho, Vice Chief of South Korea's Martial Law Headquarters, insisted that no one had yet been executed without due process of law. Civilians sentenced to death are supposed to be hanged, added Ho, "but we have found shooting by firing squad more convenient...
...Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...
Helen Tamiris' dances-and Valerie Bettis' dancing-are highly professional but not unusual. Harold Rome's music is uniformly unhaunting, but once or twice his lyrics are really bright-as in Little Things Meant So Much to Me, where a wife, in the process of bricking up her husband's body, itemizes the irritations that drove her to murder...
...search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from a region of heavy rainfall where most soluble minerals have leached away. Therefore its water carries little dissolved material...
...this pessimistic judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...