Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erase international frictions and political embarrassments. But the worldwide contest of men against men, against time and against records, was under way despite wars and tensions. Competitors who had traveled half around the world to test their grace and strength and speed and skill looked up at a bold, white sign on the big Scoreboard and smiled at its airy warning: "Classification by points on a national basis is not recognized." When a man wears his country's colors in competition, beating an opponent takes on added meaning; individual competitors, intent on winning an individual championship...
...beggar who suffers from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness ... it can also give us all a new way of life." He spells out both...
...This bold pioneering was based on years of study by San Francisco's Dr. Angelo May, using human cadavers to see whether the bottleneck material could be removed by a simple instrument, and then testing the method on live dogs to see how well they stood the operation. With encouraging answers to both questions, Dr. Bailey got a supply of May curettes: metal tubes, only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, nine inches long, with a nick filed halfway through at one end. On Oct. 29 he was ready for his first patient...
...Bold Creed for Modern Capitalism...
...countered he. We didn't know for certain what it was, but we maintained a bold face and returned quicklike, "Too much trouble." He seemed slightly disconcerted, but continued pluckily, "As a newspaperman," (we smirked nervously) "you must be sensitive to the things that other people wear." We began to titter uncontrollably but he went on: "What are the pace-setters wearing...