Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under way in the use of boranes in cancer therapy, and Lipscomb is now using his techniques to determine how digestive enzymes work. Lipscomb is as many faceted as his molecules; he is a tennis buff, plays the clarinet in local chamber orchestras, and is a genuine Kentucky colonel. His own concern about his Nobel: "I'm afraid everyone will think I'm finished, but I still have so much more...
Under the Terrorism Act, the government can incarcerate anyone at the discretion of a minister of justice or of a police official over the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Deffenbaugh added...
...campaign has proceeded, Mondale has become more relaxed. He has also displayed a sense of humor of his own. To labor audiences, Mondale says: "A working person who would vote Republican is like a chicken who would vote for Colonel Sanders." After Ford made his blunder about Eastern Europe, Mondale had a story for the occasion. "When I was in Poland, a cab driver explained to me how the system worked. 'We have a fifty-fifty deal with the Russians: we send them coal and they send us snow...
...long-suffering, long-distance reader can hardly begrudge the lady her self-indulgence. She paid her dues. Once when Hemingway was diverted by a 19-year-old Italian nymphet (the model for Colonel Cantwell's love in Across the River), Mary moaned, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." Hemingway counterpointed, "Nobody knows but Gellhorn." But Martha Gellhorn, wife-Muse number three, was a successful novelist and had been married (for less than five years) to a younger, less desperate Hemingway. Mary, not Martha, was there when the Nobel prize arrived, late as usual. Mary was also there...
...years that McCurdy has served as colonel of Harvard's cross-country team, the Crimson has captured 11 Big Three titles, four Heptagonal crowns and six consecutive Ivy championships. McCurdy also served on the victors' side in World...