Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test this theory, Canadian Biologist William F. Baldwin chose one of the world's least attractive creatures: a sharp-beaked "kissing bug" (Rhodinus prolixits], a tiny (½ in. long) brown resident of South America that lives on blood and sometimes sucks at human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with...
Billy Wilder, the producer, director, and co-author of the script, probably took some sort of commercial chance when he chose a transvestite setting for his sex spoof. Except for occasional shifting of buttocks, however, the usually queasy Boston audience has little trouble transcending its sidewalk morality-so broad is the funny business, so obvious the references...
...sending Christmas presents to friends at home. And then one day he heard of Ike's suggestion that private citizens should help alongside the Government's huge aid programs. French decided to create an entire community. CARE told him it would cost $10,000, and French chose Korea. "After all the years of trouble, I thought they deserved some help. Korea is one of the outposts of the free world...
Adam Trask raises lettuce, reads the Bible to both sons, and seeks after righteousness for its own sake. But his wife left him shortly after the boys were born, and he chose to tell them she was dead. When Cal finds out it is his mother who "runs the best house on the coast" in Monterery, he is certain he was doomed to be no good from birth...
...Richard J. Daley and Republican Timothy P. Sheehan. The FCC agreed, ruled that Daly had time coming. Rather than contest the decision, most stations grudgingly put Lar ("America First") Daly (for legalized gambling, against public schools) on the air. WBBM-TV, the CBS station in Chicago, was one which chose to fight. It fired a petition to Washington, asking the FCC to reverse itself...