Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the last gavel fell, Tom Dewey slipped back to his Bellevue-Stratford suite for an afternoon nap. In half an hour he was up again. Dressed in a fresh blue suit, he briskly took charge of all that remained to be done in Philadelphia. First, there was a group picture with the Warrens. Outside Room 808 were dozens of cameramen. Tom Dewey gave his orders: let the still-picture men come in first, then the moviemen, then the color cameramen...
...week, from Blackfriars to Tilbury, the normally bustling Thames-side was a brackish backwater. Its forest of cranes was all but motionless. At its wharves 154 ships, Plimsolls awash, groaned to be delivered of cargoes. This week many a Briton would eat more corned beef and dislike it, while fresh beef, Irish eggs and succulent tomatoes waited or rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things had been going...
...names began with the letters Fa-of all living college graduates. Of these, 9,064 filled out and returned a ballot asking 134 questions. Alphabetically, the sample ranged from Oliver Wendell Faaborg of Willmar, Minn., a University of Minnesota graduate ('35), to Marie T. Fazzone of Bridgeport, Conn., fresh out of Connecticut College for Women ('47). The oldest was 91, the youngest...
...Wall. I Tatti is more a court than a residence. At 83, Il Bibi still begins his day at 6, reading or writing or receiving visitors even before he has left his canopied bed. A fine Sassetta Madonna hangs on the wall. Each morning a vase of fresh flowers is brought to Berenson; and each morning his butler must warm his wrist watch to body temperature, lest Il Bibi jump when he straps...
...main artery, with the coronary sinus, the heart's main vein. He thus reversed the normal course of the blood and made it flow backward.. In effect, he turned a vein into an artery; the heart's capillaries got a new supply of oxygenated blood fresh from the lungs (revascularization). The patient was "terminal" (in doctors' jargon, would have died anyway), but showed enough temporary improvement before he died to make the operation look promising...