Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Healing Touch. Dr. Fernald uses every standard psychological trick in the book to gain the confidence of her "patients." But more important, she really likes children. Young students, warped by years of being called "dumb," are greeted by a warm and sympathetic smile, a gentle, unhurried approach and the flattery of being talked to as equals. She has the same easy way with animals. There is always at least one dog and one cat in her Beverly Hills home, and she frequently tries to persuade students in her undergraduate psychology classes to find homes for the strays she picks...
...when favorite sons would drop out and the real business of voting would begin. Taft got 50 of the 56 Illinois votes which had gone to Favorite Son Green. Dewey got 24 of the 35 New Jersey votes which had gone to Driscoll. Most of Dewey's gain was in dribs & drabs-a vote here, a vote there, demonstrating the value of the Dewey camp's attention to details...
...they unveiled a new Viet Namese regime of their own under General N'Guyen van Xuan (pronounced soon), which this month was ceremoniously recognized aboard a French cruiser while a band blared and planes roared overhead. Ho was unimpressed. Said he last week: "The only way to gain our freedom is to continue to fight...
...Lyons fails to make the only living ex-President of the U.S. "warm, whimsical" or very human. He has even desperately collected specimens of Hoover's "humor." Readers will gain new respect for Hoover's intelligence, stubborn integrity and devotion to public welfare, but in Lyons' pages he remains an unbending, inaccessible man in a stiff collar, a man peculiarly unfitted for the cutthroat rough & tumble of political life...
Fuller will compete in the Eastern trials to be held at Albany in two weeks against "Cokey" Wallace, the amateur champ, among others. Winners of this bracket will gain entrance to the finals with champions and runner-ups going to London to compete in the Olympic bouts which begin in the middle of July...