Word: gee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piece orchestra and no one to conduct it. I suddenly found myself playing the piano and conducting the orchestra, and I loved it." For the next year she studied under Vladimir Brailowsky, then made the rounds of the summer tent musicals, absorbing both the inevitable gags ("Gee," cracked one cigar-puffing cellist, "you're the first longhair I ever enjoyed working for") and the experience. In three years she handled 20 scores, from Me and Juliet to The King...
Whatever happens, the millionaires do not call the cops. Last April, after Biscuit King Lee Gee Chong was snatched from his limousine only 100 yards from his home, the family called in the police and then missed the rendezvous with the gang; Lee's wire-trussed body turned up a few days later in a Chinese cemetery. Since then, probably twice as many kidnapings have actually taken place as have been reported...
...observations, digest them and transmit back what is roughly equivalent to a monograph on the subject." Only half facetiously. Van Allen has one more idea about the advan tages of men over instruments in space: "There are many more subtle things that a man could report, such as 'Gee whiz, I have a terrible headache' or 'I have just vomited all over the cabin...
...COMMON COLD. There is no hint yet of either a preventive or a cure for the common cold. Reporting for a University of Illinois team that has made thousands of tests on 2,500 volunteer cold-catchers, Dr. George Gee Jackson suggested that the idea that there is a specific common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder...
...indeed did a good job of talking their male competitors into states of nervous exhaustion. Said Mary Davis: "Anyone who's on the road for hours at a time like this is inclined to be tense and irritable anyhow. All we women did was say things like 'Gee, Woody, you don't look well,' and help the men get more irritated faster. I saw one guy break down and start bawling like a baby after the first day, when he found out we were leading...