Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty after 1961, because no one wants it. Of course the routine of patriotic reluctance and ultimate submission to an "unwanted" nomination is old and familiar. But we are now asked to witness a display of coquetry unprecedented even in William Jennings Bryan's day: the spectacle of the dozen or so most qualified and ambitious men in the United States rushing around making speeches and posing and conferring with political not-so-hidden persuaders and denying that they want to be President...
...sprawling, centuries-old palace ("This is living," said Major John). That evening, after a talk with Gronchi, Ike walked from his quarters in the Quirinale to another apartment to be guest of honor at a glittering state banquet for 70. Next came a reception that spread through a dozen rooms, attended by 6,000 lavishly dressed Romans. "Doesn't he look well?" a diplomat said. "Oh, this is marvelous, marvelous...
Skin cancer from exposure of the face, neck and hands to sun and wind was first described by Germany's Paul G. Unna in 1894 as Seemanns-haut. A dozen years later, William Dubreuilh made an observational refinement in the Bordeaux vineyards : women got skin cancer on the parts of their faces left exposed by their scarves, while men got it on the back of the neck. In the U.S., 91% of skin cancer is on the hands, face and neck, 2% is on "occasionally exposed" sites, and 6.5% on sites never ordinarily exposed...
Freeze Out? Until lately the company has hidden its U.S. light by operating in the U.S. through several affiliates. Recently, it merged three into one company, Consolidated Electronics, which starts out with $90 million in sales. In 1958 the Antitrust Division cited Philips among a dozen companies accused of freezing smaller U.S. TV manufacturers out of the Canadian market. Philips also has a suit against the U.S. charging that the AEC infringed Philips' Enrico Fermi patents taken out in long-ago 1934-39 and covering aspects of radioisotope production. Both suits are still pending...
...Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses, and half a dozen children under the same roof. Howell kept the girls busy forging art works, and in particular a set of obscene etchings, which he peddled as originals...