Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of all this energy, jet-black Dumarsais Estimé, 48, was elected two years ago, largely on the strength of his opposition to the dictatorial mulatto President Elie Lescot. The grimly ambitious son of a back-country peasant, Estimé gets up each morning at 4:30, breakfasts on orange juice. Before 5, he tackles the pile of papers on his desk and with 45 minutes out for lunch and slightly more for dinner, works until midnight...
...when players, brooding over past grievances, organized a union; some felt underpaid, all were exasperated by the rules which allow clubs to sell or trade players at will. Wealthy clubs had taken to buying up promising hooters, not to play but to sit idle on the bench. A fortnight ago, the players put on a token strike. At exactly 3:45 p.m., in every stadium in Argentina, all players abruptly stood stock-still for one minute, then went on with the game...
Scientists often reach worthwhile goals by setting off in the wrong direction. Dr. Alma J. Whiffen of the Upjohn Co. did just that, several years ago. She noticed that Streptomyces griseus, the mold that produces bacteria-killing streptomycin, also produces a substance that is deadly to fungi. She separated it from the "beers" (solution in which the mold had been growing), called it "actidione," and tried it on fungi that cause human diseases...
...credit side, the M.E.s found that A.P. stories are getting fresher and brighter. Readability Expert Dr. Rudolf Flesch, hired to teach clear and simple writing (TIME, Feb. 16), said that the A.P.'s output is less monotonous than a year ago, although it still needs sprucing up. Best of all, the A.P. seemed to be growing aware that the changing nature of the news is forcing it to report not only what happened...
...Breckinridge reads with difficulty and wears dark glasses to guard her own eyes from glare. Twenty-six years ago she was stricken with glaucoma, an eye disease that often causes blindness. While waiting for her eyes to heal after an operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...