Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greece's tall, blond King Paul and Greece's common people were fed up with military defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians. Hard on the heels of the rape of Naousa came news that Karpenesion, a heavily defended provincial capital in central Greece, had fallen to the rebels. The cabinet of doddering old Themistocles Sophoulis resigned. Sophoulis, 88, is lucid for only about an hour...
...tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism and anarchism with his friends. The Weizmann home was almost always in an uproar. "They've got to be fed," Chaim's mother would cry from the kitchen, "or they won't have the strength to shout...
After a long period of winter hibernation, John L. Lewis issued forth to make a proud pronouncement: in 20 months the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (now fed by a 20? rake-off on every ton of coal mined) had paid out $68 million. Among other things, the fund had put 11,689 retired miners on $100-a-month pensions...
Last summer, fed up with years of haggling over conductors, wages, and spokesmen, Seattle's symphony musicians rebelled. After forming their own orchestra (TIME, Aug. 23), they picked their own conductor, a bright, energetic young localite named Eugene Linden. While the old Seattle Symphony's socialite directors screamed "musical mobsters," the new orchestra made music merrily-and successfully-though most of Seattle's mink and 75?-cigar set boycotted the concerts. One reason for the success (and the boycott) was a tall, bosomy woman named Cecilia Schultz, whom the musicians had picked to carry their flag...
...past ten years, Dr. Garnett Cheney of Stanford University's School of Medicine has been studying an anti-ulcer factor he tentatively calls vitamin U (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). Tests on patients have been encouraging; their ulcers got better when Dr. Cheney fed them on foods containing vitamin U, but he could not prove that U did the trick...