Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write each book, relentlessly crosses off the days on a calendar. Finished manuscripts are tossed aside for three weeks and then revisions quickly made. Hazel Bushes, which deals with the life and wives of a Parisian banker named Francois Perret-La-tour, is "very different from what I have done before." Where earlier books usually had a kind of bittersweet resignation as a conclusion, this one, says Simenon, "has optimism...
...they had no way of taking a firsthand look at their discovery, they managed to deduce a detailed description of the now famous "double helix" that paved the way for the new science of molecular biology and won them the Nobel Prize. For all the work that has been done in the field since Watson and Crick made their pioneering studies in 1953, no one had been able to display any hard and fast visual evidence to confirm the spiral structure of DNA. Now that evidence is in. A young California scientist reported to a Los Angeles meeting...
...four pediatric hematologists recently got together with a psychiatrist and a social worker to find out just what is the emotional effect of a child's leukemia on the parents, on siblings and on the victim himself. More important, the researchers wanted to find out what could be done to reduce the impact. That something needed to be done was obvious from the fact that in at least one half of the 20 families studied, some relative had required psychiatric care...
...kind of revolutionary unrest that shook France during last spring's devastating strikes. Last week De Gaulle issued yet another "non" to both lavish wage increases and devaluation. He told his cabinet that the wage settlement offer last May was "probably too much. But what has been done is done. In any event, there is no question of going any further." Despite De Gaulle's stubborn determination, a large number of European moneymen regard as inevitable a 10% to 15% devaluation of the franc before the end of the year...
...face, all your other kissable little curves and hollows." Television commercials show a model applying Loveshines to the cleavage in her bosom. In another TV spot, a young man watches his girl friend spread Love's Basic Moisture over much of her body and sighs: "It's done wonders for her whole mental outlook. And our relationship has improved 100%." Just in case that fails to lure the customers, most of the Love cosmetics are sold in tall, bullet-shaped containers that, the designers say, are frank Freudian symbols...