Word: erick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From Erick, Okla., over near the Texas border, Moore calls Norman. The lab reports that the storm clouds are "falling apart." Moore is unconvinced. He heads west again to get a better look at a cloud bank that seems to contradict the forecast. "Look at that thing!" Moore yells. "It's going up! Hell yes, it's going up!" He throws the pickup into a fast U-turn. He turns on the AM radio just in time to hear an unmistakable crackle. "If I didn't know better," Moore shouts, "I'd say that was lightning...
...goals and provides central services such as legal, financial and marketing support, but the agencies are left to fight for clients on their own. Says SSC&B President Alfred J. Seaman: "If we had a new business prospect, I would want us to compete just as hard against McCann-Erick-son and Campbell-Ewald as we would against Young & Rubicam...
Forty years later a lack of rapport still was noticeable. In 1894 Sir Fred erick Lugard, who was to become Nigeria's first Governor, traveled to an inner principality called Borgu and succeeded in getting two treaties signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
...well, like art imitating life. Pantherlike Dolores Cortez is widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that...
...Like Erick, most midgets, or pituitary dwarfs, can be helped to achieve near-normal growth through injections of HGH. But while efforts are under way to synthesize the substance in large amounts, HGH can now be obtained only from the pituitaries of human cadavers, which are in short supply. Rimoin estimates that 25% of the midget population could be helped by hormone therapy; at present, only 10% are able to obtain treatment...