Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...founded twelve years ago by a still-anonymous Manhattan stockbroker, known only as Bill, and an alcoholic Akron doctor. The organization has no officers, no dues, no big funds (its small Manhattan headquarters last year spent only $35,000, donated by members). Pledged to help other alcoholics, members do little proselyting, help only when they are called on. Before A.A., all but 5% of alcoholics were considered hopeless. Of A.A.'s members, some 50% never touch a drop after they join; 25% get on the wagon after one or two slips...
Clean Wind. A.A.'s method (inspired by William James's Varieties of Religious Experience) rests on an appeal to a Higher Power (God, or whatever Force the member prefers) for strength to resist the compulsion to drink. Founder Bill, describing his "spiritual awakening," said: "I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountaintop blew through and through." Psychiatrists, who use much fancier words, describe the process as the "use of a religious or spiritual force to attack the fundamental narcissism of the alcoholic...
...airplane has been more buffeted by the "Is it safe?" controversy than Lockheed's four-engine, 60-passenger Constellation. Last week the black-eyed Connie found an outspoken champion in Assistant Secretary of Commerce (for air) William A. M. Burden. A knowing airman, Bill Burden told the Senate committee investigating air safety that "disproportionate attention" had been paid to the Connie's "occasional mishaps...
...other slight modifications made, the Connie, "already a fine airplane, became undoubtedly the most advanced airplane of its class . . . with respect to safety." The subsequent crash of a T.W.A. Constellation in Eire, killing 13, said he, was due to faulty maintenance of altimeters, not faulty design. Concluded Bill Burden: "The grounding action and resultant publicity have worked an undue-hardship on the Constellation...
Firsts by Hawaiian Bill Kanakanui in the two sprints also kept the cadets in the fight until the Varsity's Jerry Gorman and Forbes Norris swept the 440-yard freestyle. All eyes were upon Norris in this last event before the relay, as his second finish over Navy Millar in this event clinched the outcome of the battle. Hence the surprise triumph of the 400-yard freestyle relayers Norm Watkins, John Watkins, Walt Bullard, and Bill MacVicar turned a one-point edge into a 15-point rout...