Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came back from France a 1st lieutenant, with a citation from Pershing, a Belgian Croix de Guerre, and suffering from the aftereffects of a gassing in the Argonne. He tried teaching, first at Amherst, then at Hackley, where he could be closer to Peggy Zinsser (niece of famed Scientist Hans Zinsser), whom he had met at a Smith-Amherst dance. But teaching was not quite Lew's line. After he and Peggy were married, they moved back to Arizona...
Malaria plagues nearly half the world's population. Since the war, researchers have been inching closer to a definitive cure for the disease. Last week it looked as if they just about had it-a new drug which, used with quinine, permanently cures 95% of all relapsing malaria cases. Still unnamed, it is identified as SN 13,274. The drug was developed at Columbia University, with U.S. Public Health Service aid, by a group of chemists headed by Dr. Robert C. Elderfield...
...slender waist. She smiled shyly at her tall sailor husband as they continued on upstairs." For an added measure of tabloid taste, she guessed that the couple may have played some records that the Marquess of Milford Haven had given Philip, such as Cuddle Up a Little Closer or Bess, You Is My Woman Now. (Julia guessed wrong; the Marquess gave no records...
...Stock Yards Bank (because it is just across the way from the Bourbon Stockyards, he likes to call it "a stinking good bank"). Sanders works hard at both jobs and feels they go together fine. "Because I live in the same world my people do, I am closer to them," he says. "And I'm a better banker as the result of my preaching...
Kenny was married in August and now occupies the former home of Vince Moravec in Boston. Moravec moved closer to the Square in October to convalesce after his leg operation...