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The bursting inward of something hollow |
implosion
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Castro's Cuban revolution happened at the end of this decade |
the '50's
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"Extra Virginity" is a book about the "scandalous world" of this liquid cooking product |
olive oil
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At the urging of his wife, Walt Disney changed Mortimer's name to this |
Mickey Mouse
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"Gratiano, keep the house, and seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, for they succeed on you" |
Othello
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Add a "c" to a security device to get this timepiece |
a clock
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Pumice is this type of rock formed by magma that stops being molten |
igneous
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If it's July 14 of this year, it must be time to storm the Bastille & start the French Revolution |
1789
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Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" showed this president's reckless side |
John F. Kennedy
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From 1951 to 1968 he hit 536 homers for the New York Yankees |
Mickey Mantle
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"We will unite the white rose and the red, smile heaven upon this fair conjunction" |
(Ben-Hur: What is Romeo and Juliet?)
Richard III
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Add an "H" to a feline to get this informal talk (& also the French for feline) |
(Virginia: What is cat?)
chat
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The first uprising called this natl. revolution was in 1905, after a massacre of peasants at the Winter Palace |
Russian
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Born Elizabeth Cochran, this journalist wrote an 1887 exposé on conditions in mental asylums |
Nellie Bly
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Mickey Hart joined Bill Kreutzmann for some long jams as they formed the drumming duo of this band |
The Grateful Dead
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"With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails" |
(Virginia: What is Twelfth Night?)
The Tempest
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Add an "R" to a place where a Smith works to get this counterfeiter |
forger
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It's the invisible part of the spectrum from about 800 nanometers to 1 millimeter in wavelength |
infrared
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The Redcoats & Minutemen first got it on in the American Revolution on the 19th of this month in 1775 |
(Ben-Hur: What is July?)
April
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Subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal", this expose was made into a 2006 film |
Fast Food Nation
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Born Joe Yule Jr. in 1920, he briefly changed his name to Mickey McGuire before settling on this stage name |
Mickey Rooney
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"Take up the bodies. such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss" |
Hamlet
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Add an "I" to a measure of interest on a loan to get this synonym for "angry" |
irate
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In humans, the hipbone is 3 fused bones: the pubis, the ischium & this one |
the ilium
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The Hungarian Revolution was in October of this Cold War year |
1956
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This coin phrase is the punning title of Barbara Ehrenreich's chronicle of making ends meet on $7 an hour |
(Jen: What is Minimum Wage?) (Virginia: What is Nickel and Dime?)
Nickel and Dimed
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A 1996 documentary was titled this man, "Actor or Boxer?" |
Mickey Rourke
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"As for that ravenous tiger Tamora... being dead, let birds on her take pity" |
Titus Andronicus
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Add an "E" to a word meaning "reasonable" to get this underlying reason for doing something |
rationale
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