Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon his health began to fail. In 1962 he quit for good to retire to his home in Connecticut and write an autobiography implausibly titled Paper Tiger. "I left the Trib in disappointment and rage both times," he lamented. But honest rage was more than half the secret of Stanley Woodward's success as a sports editor...
...almost perfect antimalarial drug. U.S. servicemen take a weekly prophylactic tablet containing 300 mg. of chloroquine and 45 mg. of another antimalarial known as primaquine. If they develop malaria despite this, they are likely to be infected by a resistant strain of parasites. If massive doses of chloroquine fail to bring the fever down within a few hours, the medics may switch to pyrimethamine (Daraprim), which is effective in some of the less severe cases. In most instances, however, the medics are forced back to quinine, the oldest antimalarial of all. For pernicious malaria threatening the brain, quinine must...
...Under the present system, the Universal Military Training Act establishes various classifications, and specifies the "sequence". The law provides that local boards must take single men aged 19-26 before married men, and married men without dependents before those who have them. It also grants exemptions to those who fail the physical and mental examinations, those who have certain essential skills or occupations, conscientious objectors, sole surviving sons, and ministers...
...trying to focus the intelligence of interested students into the dark corners of Harvard's administrative policy, to improve substantially the education every student receives. It seems just possible that the College has finally found a student government fitted to its needs and idiosyncracies. The experiment may still fail, but there is every reason to give it a chance to succeed...
...running back six interceptions for 197 yds., returning 19 punts for 435 yds. A two-way player who averaged 50 min. of action per game, Hawkins runs the 100-yd. dash in 9.7 sec. Naturally, that impresses the pros. So does his "ability to improvise when standard defensive patterns fail...