Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Georgina Yeats, 75, widow of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; of a heart attack; in Dublin. "How should I forget the wisdom that you brought/ The comfort that you made?" wrote Yeats in 1919, two years after his marriage to the witty, cultured English woman who was his confidante, and to some extent, muse. In 1963, nearly 30 years after his death, she gave Ireland's National Library a collection of his manuscripts that officials termed "one of the most munificent gifts since the founding of the state...
Died. Harry E. Barnes, 79, controversial author, whose books on politics, history, sociology and penology roused storms of controversy during the 1920s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Malibu, Calif. Ever the gadfly, in 1926 Barnes wrote that the Allies, as well as the Germans, were responsible for World War I, two years later drew the wrath of organized religion by branding God an out-of-date concept "evolved by the semibarbarous Hebrew peoples...
...fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for a commercial district, corporation tenements, housing lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural...
That charge struck at the heart of the brokerage firm's cherished reputation for encouraging and instructing small investors. In essence, it accused Merrill Lynch of doing the very opposite: favoring big institutions at the expense of the rank and file...
...stores. Releasing a flood of the body chemical acetylcholine, which sets off muscle contractions, nerve gases cause uncontrollable convulsions in their victims. By one scientist's account, according to Hersh, "The pupils, bladder and alimentary canal constrict, the penis erects, the tear and saliva glands secrete and the heart slows." The victim is generally asphyxiated...