Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American National Red Cross made it official: the preferred method of artificial respiration is for the rescuer to put his mouth to the victim's and breathe air into the victim's lungs about twelve times a minute. For children, the Red Cross recommends shallower breaths, a rate of about 20 to the minute...
...cold-voiced Malvolio, Fritz Weaver is adequate. His best moment, though, occurs when he is speechless: in his cross-gartered scene he brings along the forged letter and, misinterpreting Olivia's question, "Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?," drops it on the ground in stunned amazement. William Daniels' Sebastian leaves a favorable impression. Frederick O'Neal looks the part of the sea-captain Antonio, but his Shakespearean diction is woefully deficient...
...meaningful primaries; more and more Democratic Governors (TiME. July 6), and even Senators, were threatening to run as favorite sons. The way to win public support, he made clear, is to run big in a key state. And nothing looked more key-or more appealing-than Ohio, with its cross section of Midwest industry and agriculture and its tradition of independent voting...
...alike, the rock has rarely lacked a noble covering. The present dome dates back to the great edifice erected by Abdul-Malek Ibn Marwan, Caliph of Damascus, in 691, who used up seven years' tax revenue from Egypt to realize his dream. In 1099, crusaders mounted a gold cross on the dome and turned it into a church. Later, Saladin Avon it back for Islam, lovingly coated the interior arches with mosaic, the walls with marble. Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the exterior walls covered with splendid blue tiles...
Died. William Francis Dietrich, 65, plucky rear admiral (ret.) who, as captain of the cargo ship U.S.S. Bellatrix, won the Navy Cross by repeatedly defying Japanese air attack to carry supplies to the besieged marines at Guadalcanal; of pneumonia; in Bethesda...