Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claim that scholarship students come largely from upper-middle income brackets is also quite valid, as the Admissions Office here is so keenly aware. But Holland uses only the word "prestigious" to show the causes of this trend; he uses the word in the different senses of fame, popularity and high quality and thus gives a muddled analysis of the motivations of applicants and the relation between their social status and preparation...
...Barker had been lured by Africa since his childhood donations to church missionary work. He met his wife Margaret at medical school, and they left for Zululand together in 1945. Their assignment was St. Augustine's station, founded in the 1880s by an archdeacon who had earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited...
...fame grew, Wilma got dozens of telegrams in a smattering of languages. She patiently signed autographs by the dozen as Italian fans threw their books down on the field. The home-town Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle ran a laudatory editorial ("an inspiration to the world in general"), and Tennessee's Governor Buford Ellington, who had run for office as an "oldfashioned segregationist," made plans to head the welcome-home party. When the Olympics were done. Coach Temple could find only one fault with the record of the world's fastest woman: "Wilma's never been tested since...
...street ornaments in Bruges for the marriage of Charles the Bold to Margaret of York. He rose swiftly after that, carrying on the trend to greater humanization (see color). But Hugo van der Goes was obsessed by the belief that he was damned. At the peak of his fame he withdrew to a monastery, where kindly monks played sweet music to him when his black depressions came. He died in 1482 hopelessly insane...
...week of fantastic emotional ups and downs. Favorites fell by the dozen. Unknowns won fame. Under the tension, tempers rose: a Japanese official accused a Bulgarian wrestler of throwing a match to a Russian, who thereby beat out a Yugoslav for a gold medal; on British complaints, 15 boxing referees and judges were fired for incompetence; some U.S. officials and athletes wailed with alarm at early defeats. But not even the acrimony could obscure the brilliance of the athletes themselves in Rome...