Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When war was declared Duffy enlisted in the Army, went to OCS, and served 27 months as an officer in a port battalion in New Guinea. On the way to his overseas assignment, Lieut. Daugherty stopped off in San Francisco, where he met pretty Frances Steccati. Frances politely inquired how long the lieutenant would be in town. "About a month," said Duffy. Then he added casually: "We'll be married by then." They were...
...Stahnke of Arizona State College announced that the imposingly named Committee on Problems of Alcohol, Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, had given him $2,000 to find out. Stahnke quickly got several offers from volunteers to serve as human guinea pigs, but he replied loftily that he will work with rats...
Comparing the Bolshevik Revolution with his countrymen's own 1949 revolt against the Dutch, Sukarno plugged for Soviet support in his aim to add West New Guinea to his fledgling republic. "In Indonesia," he told the engineers, "the revolutionaries . . . greet each other with the cry of merdeka, which means freedom . . . I ask you now to join me in exclaiming merdeka five times." Dutifully the freedomless Russians roared the strange new word. And from then on it was the vociferous cheer of welcome for the sprightly visitor from southern Asia...
...matings of guinea pigs where the female was "conditioned" by alcohol, 90% of the conceptions resulted in abnormalities, reported Dr. Dora Papara Nicholson of George Washington University. The preliminary findings, Dr. Nicholson believes, support her observations that abnormal births in humans are most frequent at the extremes of the social scale, where the most alcohol is consumed...
...instance, the objective question not only covers more ground but can be fully as searching as the essay. Before devising each test, the E.T.S. staff holds long conferences with teachers, professors and experts on the subjects in question. They draw up lists of possible problems, test them out on guinea-pig students, gradually weed out those that are too easy, too confusing, or irrelevant. But in all its tests, the effort of the E.T.S. is to get beyond mere factual knowledge...