Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine had been appointed from among the 63 delegates to the first meeting, in Chichester, England, of the World Council of Churches' central committee. Five of the nine were front-line veterans of the fight against totalitarianism. Pastor Martin Niemöller had spent eight years in a Nazi concentration camp; Norway's Bishop Arne Fjellbu was a leader in his country's wartime underground; Dr. Hendrick Kraemer was a member of the Dutch resistance movement; Germany's Bishop Otto Dibelius, who fought the Nazis for ten years, is now fighting the Communists in the Eastern...
When she was a week old, Sandy Kaplan had a wheeze, and sometimes her breathing made a sort of crowing noise. Doctors at Manhattan's Woman's Hospital knew there was something wrong with her, but did not know what. Her first day at home, Sandy turned white, then blue around the mouth, and almost suffocated. Her mother, a practicing attorney, learned to give Sandy only a couple of ounces of food at a time. That meant 20 feedings...
...cancers, West found, the chymotrypsin inhibitor is greatly multiplied. As soon as a cancer patient responds favorably to treatment, the normal proportion (with the rennin inhibitor more abundant) is restored. Sometimes, West reported this week in the Annals of Western Medicine and Surgery, his test will give the first indication that a patient needs fresh treatment (for example, X rays) if recovery is to continue...
U.C.L.A. rashly called the West test "the first rapid and accurate method" of determining whether cancer treatment is having any effect...
...book along to the cricket field, chips into his cameo-chiseled reports on Britain's national game. Slight, myopic Cardus is probably the world's only cricket critic who also doubles in brass and woodwinds as a music reviewer. For 30 years, in covering his "strange dichotomy," first for the Guardian and now for the Kemsley newspapers (the Sunday Times, the Sunday Chronicle), Cardus has played a deft prose symphony of his own that weaves through both his fields the tonal majesty of one, the rhythmic action of the other. The result bewitches more readers than it baffles...