Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprising Sailor. The man everybody had to catch down the stretch was Lew Worsham, a sandy-haired, 29-year-old ex-sailor from Washington, D.C., one time pro at Burning Tree. A nervous chain-smoker, likable young Lew Worsham had taken his wife to St. Louis with him, but made her stay back in the clubhouse. When he faltered momentarily on the 17th in the final round, one onlooker said: "There goes $50,000." But Worsham spit on his hands, with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under...
...major problems confronted Woodward at the outset. First he had to find units which could be incorporated into the chains of the desired protein analogs. Then he had to devise a method for initiating the growth of the chain...
Back in 1907 Emil Fisher, German chemist, painstakingly made an amino chain of 18 units, but chains of 10,000 units and up are already coming out in Woodward's laboratory. The new molecules may even outdo nature itself, which suggests that an entirely new field of plastics may be opened...
...this President Perón remembered last week as he strode through the heavily carpeted chambers of the Casa Rosada, chain-smoking strong "43" cigarets, trying to make up his mind. His decision was finally made between ballet numbers in Buenos Aires' rococo Teatro Colón. He dispatched quaking Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi to the block-square police headquarters in Calle Moreno to hand Velazco his ultimatum. Borlenghi had reason to quake; Velazco had publicly slapped him only four months before...
Durham, a Chicago fabricator and steel broker, joined the daisy chain through a broker named McAleer, who phoned him long distance. If Durham could be in New York that night, said McAleer, he could buy 100,000 tons of steel. Too eager to pack, Durham grabbed a spare shirt, flew to New York, and hurried to the rendezvous in a suite in Manhattan's Hampshire House...