Word: clues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never bustles, but she is constantly busy. Her calm demeanor almost never deserts her. When she is displeased, her expression telegraphs the clue: her warm smile vanishes, is instantly replaced by a gelid stare. She is never fussy, but her eye and ear catch the smallest details. Last month, when the old Federal Security Agency was officially christened the Department of Health. Education and Welfare and she was sworn in as Secretary, Oveta went immediately to a White House telephone to call her office. She noted with satisfaction that the operator promptly chirped "Health, Education and Welfare" instead of "Federal...
...room on the first level of Lamont is a collection of past examinations containing, many hope, a clue to future questions. Anxious students scan these paper-bound volumes looking for some trend or favorite topic on which they can wager the tag-end of their study time. Even those who enter examinations well prepared find solace in studying professors' past performances...
Nancy L. R. Bucher, instructor in Medicine, outlined the new use for cholesterol which may provide a clue to understanding heart disease and cancer. Lewis W. Hill, clinical associate in Pediatrics, announced that cortisone, a substance produced by the adrenal glands, is proving effective in the treatment of asthma and eczema among young children...
...Trance? Gianella's parents, Building Engineer Lido de Marco and his wife, an ex-opera singer, got their first clue to the youngster's phenomenal talent when she was four. They came home one night to find Gianella standing up in bed, her eyes shut, conducting an imaginary orchestra to the strains of Beethoven's Fifth on a neighbor's radio. Papa de Marco, shrugged the incident off as "some sort of trance...
None of Pastor Schuman's friends could think of anything he had done to account for the boycotting charge, but a refugee to West Berlin supplied a clue to the minister's "glorification of capitalism." In a lecture to young Evangelical churchmen early this year, Schuman had told a story of an English millionaire who never belonged to any organized religion but left his money to a church when he died...