Word: gabriele
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of the sunny Guatemalan town of Escuintla (pop. 31,000) last week chose as their mayor a candidate who was in faraway Moscow on election day. The absentee mayor-elect, Gabriel Carney, had not bothered to campaign for votes-that would have cut into his trip behind the Iron Curtain with Guatemala's Communist Boss Jose Manuel Fortuny. But he headed the local Labor (Communist) Party ticket, and the tightly organized slaughterhouse workers of Escuintla voted him into office...
...Gabriel Gradėre has corrupted young girls, lived with a prostitute on her earnings, run a ring of brothels with her, trafficked in cocaine and blackmail, and is now, at 50, being blackmailed in turn by the prostitute Aline. After a childhood friend has given birth to his son, he marries her for her money though they abhor each other. When she dies, he squanders the fortune she has left him. Some land remains to his son, however, and Gradėre tries to salvage it from the predatory grasp of Symphorien Desbats, the asthmatic husband of Grad...
...During the campaign, both candidates made use of ghosts. Some of Stevenson's: Herbert Agar, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Archibald Mac-Leish, Bernard DeVoto. Samuel Rosenman. James Wechsler. Some of Eisenhower's: Stanley High, Gabriel Hauge, C. D. Jackson, Emmet Hughes...
This time he talked to dead poets, declaiming memorial odes for Burns, Scott and Byron, and even tried to sleep in Westminster Abbey to save on hotel bills. London's literati could not resist his sombrero, chaps, and jangling spurs-or his tall tales. Dante Gabriel Rossetti watched wide-eyed when Joaquin put two cigars in his mouth, lit them up, and bellowed, "That's the way we do it in the States!" Others stood spellbound as he told of lassoing buffalo as they stampeded down Beacon Street in Boston...
...butterflies' wings. While working together in Rome, they had discovered that neutrons (themselves discovered in 1932) could be slowed down by passage through water or paraffin. Thus slowed, the neutrons were much more likely to be captured by other elements, making them radioactive. A friend of the scientists, Gabriel M. Giannini,* thought the process might have commercial value, but practically no one else did. Such great U.S. companies as Du Pont, General Electric and American Cyanamid showed no interest...