Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will get an adequate education; whereas, the child who fails and whose parents cannot afford it will have no further opportunity for a future university training. This system, therefore, does not give equal educational facilities for all, as it was originally planned . . . R. G. WALTON, M.D. University of Michigan Ann Arbor...
...Knopp flipped the girl's nails and pricked her arm with a needle. No response. Spirits of ammonia held under her nose produced a violent head shaking which stopped as soon as the irritant was removed. The intern spoke into her ear, calling her by her first name. "Ann," he said, "can you hear me? What hurts you, Ann? Can you tell me?" The girl seemed to be making an effort to speak; she got out the word "stomach," and clutched her abdomen...
When Shirley Ann Schopp came down with polio last year, her father & mother worried, like every father & mother in the same plight, about the lasting paralysis that might follow. For months, it seemed that their worst fears were confirmed: three-year-old Shirley was almost completely paralyzed. But Shirley's father is Dr. Alvin C. Schopp, an orthopedist at St. Louis University and St. Anthony's Hospital. He had been searching for years for something that would help to give back vitality to nerves damaged by the polio virus. A new drug, Pyromen, had just come...
...significant shot keynoted the early stages of the rioting: the rifle shot that a fortnight ago killed Bridget Ann Timbers, an American nun, outside the convent in Ismailia where she had been stationed. The nun's death, for which each side blamed the other, was followed by bloody rioting in Ismailia, and a ruthless house-to-house search by the British for guerrillas and hidden weapons...
...despite all these ornaments, I was still dissatisfied, and most of the people around me were, too. The fault, with apologies to Shakespeare, was not in ourselves but in the stars. Neither of the principal performers lived up to the publicity they had received. Ann Andre, the Widow, was sufficiently voluptuous, but she mouthed most of her delicious lines to such an extent that I understood very little of what she said. This might be forgiven, if she had an exceptionally fine voice, but she doesn't. It is much too small, and she has trouble hitting her high notes...