Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test fails to screen out patients who may have reactions that develop more slowly. But for them there was good news also. Two doctors at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Ill. reported that injections of penicillinase (an enzyme that destroys penicillin in the body), given along with antihistamines, will clear up most cases of rashes, fever, swelling and painful joints caused by penicillin...
...been on the run for the better part of his life. A couple of his slower-footed friends in the grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
...winning a race, Mrs. Jan Burke's brown horse Dedicate went to the post for one more effort. Lugging rough-riding Willie Hartack for the first time, Dedicate lay back and saved ground all the way to the stretch in the $106,100 Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler-a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same afternoon, George Widener's Jester, two-year-old son of Tom Fool...
...what's happening there right now?" demanded Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker in the Pentagon last week as an officer passed along the latest message from the troops in Little Rock. Another officer had an idea: "Why not turn on the television set?" A set was wheeled up, flicked on, and promptly revealed members of the 101st Airborne Division stiffly at parade rest outside a peaceful Central High School. Brucker grunted with satisfaction. Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor, onetime commander of the 101st, peered hard at the soldiers. "They look good, sharp," he said, then broke out unbelievingly...
After four weeks of flexing its muscles at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Ballet (formerly known as Sadler's Wells) moved out to begin a four-month coast-to-coast tour. Along with its new name, the company brought five ballets previously unknown to U.S. audiences-including some of the most gaudily packaged merchandise it had ever displayed...