Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Lair. Betancourt began by wooing the military in its own lair-the marble, mahogany, and gold-crusted officers' clubs built as a form of bribery by Pérez Jiménez. He offered not bribery but calming talk: "The armed forces are indispensable for the republic." He insistently hinted that the day of the bloodless, predawn coup had ended...
...birthday. The No. 1 dinner, linked up with 15 other parties by a closed-circuit TV network, took place at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, where about 2,000 Democratic Party faithful-plus a smattering of G.O.P. well-wishers -heard their jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch him grow to greatness." Monsignor L. Curtis Tiernan, chaplain of Artillery Captain Truman's regiment in France in World War I, told how Harry...
Trickiest of the hormones has been the one secreted by the pituitary gland, which stimulates growth. Overproduction in childhood makes a giant. In the adult it can cause acromegaly (a localized form of gigantism, with enlargement of the jaw and extremities), can also aggravate diabetes and may speed the spread of cancer originating in the breast. Hitherto, the only way to halt the effects of growth hormone was to destroy the pituitary by radiation or surgery (TIME, May 16, 1955). But Drs. Martin Sonenberg and William Money described a new gimmick that has worked in animals: they treat growth hormone...
...Crimson might have given Yale a battle if hurdler Joel Landau had not been forced to drop out of his first trial heat with a painful fallen arch. Even with his season-long form trouble, a healthy Landau could have equaled the 14.9 and 24.4 performances turned in by double-winner Angelo Sinisi of Brown...
...captain Albie Gordon, however, who pulled the most pronounced reversal of form. After a rough winter which saw him grow progressively worse as the season wore on, Gordon snapped his slump with a blazing stretch run that defeated Ron Salter and Dave Gray of Army...