Word: begin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reason for this week's flurry of activity was that Dr. Jordan, who will be 74 on Oct. 20, is retiring-not to a life of idleness, but to begin a new career as a medical writer. Many patients wanted a last, reassuring word. For her part, Dr. Jordan was shuffling case histories, making certain that her patients would go on getting the same care...
There is, to begin with, the American ambassador to a Southeast Asian nation called Sarkhan. Louis ("Lucky Lou") Sears is a political hack who does not speak Sarkhanese ("Fifty percent of the entire Foreign Service officer corps do not have a speaking knowledge of any foreign language"). He loathes the people, the place, the climate. By contrast, the Soviet ambassador is a carefully trained career diplomat who reads and writes Sarkhanese, has studied Buddhism. To show his appreciation of the Sarkhanese ideal of slimness, he diets away 40 Ibs.; to indicate his enthusiasm for Sarkhanese music, he becomes "a fairly...
...money will keep a lot of students happy for a long time. The Student Council has known for a long time how happy it would be if it had more money. But now that the Deans have also discovered this fact, it seems likely that the money will soon begin to flow from University Hall to the Council's coffers in P.B.H...
...comes up Monday noon, the Seawolf will have been below the Atlantic Ocean's surface for exactly 60 days. The submarine sailed on Aug. 5, went down two days later to begin what the Navy then described only as a "routine environmental test...
...avoid further incidents, such an investigation should begin as soon as possible...