Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I would like to begin," said Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, "by expressing our sincere appreciation to Mr. Robinson, the mayor of San Francisco, for the hospitality accorded to us in this marvelous city." His voice was flat and expressionless; before him in anxious rows sat New Zealanders, Nicaraguans and Norwegians, Pakistanis...
Natural Barrier. Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with...
When Strongman Juan Perón decided to lift Argentina's 1936 ban on legalized prostitution as part of his campaign against the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 10), his decree authorized provincial and local governments to license brothels in "suitable places." Last week the Buenos Aires municipal council...
After graduation, Einstein settled in Switzerland, married Mileva Marie, a Serbian mathematician. With a family to support, he got a job as an examiner in the Swiss Patent Office. But "I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals. I turned aside from everything else...
White Winter. Ten months of the year Vorkuta is blanketed by snow. El Campesino, the peasant general who fought for the Republicans in the Spanish civil war (one of the few people ever to have escaped from a Soviet prison camp), has described the storms which sweep over the Vorkuta...