Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarms ran through dinnertime: some families got up from the table and dumped their filleted flounder into the garbage can. Housewives who were saving it in the refrigerator got rid of it in a hurry. Hospital switchboards lit up and were jammed for hours. Emergency rooms filled fast. About 300 people who said they had eaten flounder got treatment: some were hypochondriacs, most were mild cases, a few were severely poisoned. As far as officials knew, there were no more deaths...
Every time the cause of some baffling infection is found or a new wonder drug is discovered, the news is hailed as another step toward a hygienic utopia in which disease and premature death will have no place. Not so fast, says one of the world's top authorities on infectious diseases and a pioneer of the antibiotic age; disease is an aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules...
...months of the last fiscal year. For the entire year, American should earn upwards of $50 million, and may easily earn as high as $64 million, or about $11 a share, if Romney's confident expectation of 350,000 Rambler sales holds up. Earnings are piling up so fast that Romney is expected to ask the company directors to declare the first cash dividend since 1954, when it was 12½?; this time it looks as if the dividend will be about...
...uses the first daylight hours, except when snow is on the ground, to play solitary golf with luminous balls at a country club next to his home. He keeps no score, dashes up and lunges at the ball, then chases it across the fairway at a fast jog. Caddies call him "the ghost...
Under clear, late afternoon skies with the temperatures in the 70's, Harvard went ahead when left fielder Charlie Ravenel lined a fast ball over the left field wall, 291 feet away, in the second inning. Quantico came back with a run on another four-bagger, and the score remained tied until the seventh. Captain and catcher John Davis then poled a home run over the right field wall, and the Crimson got a third score the following inning. With Harvard ahead by two with one inning remaining, there seemed little doubt as to the outcome...