Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood. A year agor the ministers agreed that convertibility was possible only if the U.S. lowered its tariff barriers, Britons have been getting increasingly gloomy reports from Washington, and doubt that the U.S. Congress will appreciably lower tariffs in the predictable future. Britons think they also detect a subtler change in the U.S. They believe that the U.S. may be giving up its hope of finding some positive way of rolling back Communism, and is reconciling itself to uneasy, competitive, but peaceful coexistence with the Soviet bloc. Economically this means, Britons suspect, that the U.S.'s missionary zeal...
...normal girls (three still living). Then, during her fifth pregnancy, something went wrong. An embryo began to divide into what should have become identical twins, but the separation was never completed. When Margaret Hartley's time came, the doctors could not complete a normal delivery. Since they could detect heartbeats, it was their duty to give the fetus every chance of entering the world alive. So Dr. Vance Chattin did a Caesarean section...
...wife and I want to know what he was doing. Surely it was not to test the wind velocity as he never looked up at his extended hand. Certainly it was not to detect the moisture on his finger tips from the blades of grass. If it were just to detect the type of turf and the footing why the extended hand? Also we saw no motions between the young scientist (?) and the press box. I realize Harvard has a School of Mines but surely he was not looking for uranium in the Yale Bowl. Incidentally, one of his observations...
...occur to John X that he was emotionally ill. It was his stomach, he said. A battery of doctors found nothing wrong there. Then John X "knew" the worst: he was going to die soon, probably from one of those hard-to-detect cancers of the stomach. Forced to give up some meetings, he spent the evenings at home talking to his wife about his life insurance. He slept poorly and lost weight. He gave up hope. Late one night the tension in his mind became so great that John X threatened to end his life, but his wife talked...
...whole exchange was conducted in the most Olympian of legal tones, but it did not take a lawyer to detect that the President would be walking into a first-class tussle when he made the new appointment...