Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retire "gracefully and with dignity" by taking a special temporary job surveying immigration in South America. Corsi hesitated. He felt, McLeod said, that "the title [deputy] didn't have a very good ring to it." Furthermore, as Corsi said later, he was "ashamed" of his "rat hole in the wall" State Department office. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Francis Walter attacked Corsi on the ground that he had once belonged to some Communist front groups. At his news conference on April 5, Dulles disclosed publicly for the first time that Corsi's job had only...
...kept at the parish house too. Forgiveness. Workmen began battering down a presbytery wall preparatory to building a new garage for these vehicles. Next day, Mayor Mamour and Robert Mocriau, the local garde champetre (village policeman), arrived to inspect operations. They found that Father Lagrave had blocked the hole in the wall. Police man Mocriau and Priest Lagrave began to exchange remarks. Suddenly, Father Lagrave seized the policeman by the arm and pointed to the letters G.C. (for garde champetre) on his cap. "You know what those letters stand for, don't you," he shouted. "They stand...
...respiration rate is called "Rabinowitch's nightmare."* For years it haunted biologists, who compared it to the problem of finding out if the refrigerator light is shining after the door is closed. Last week Dr. John Decker of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced that he has punched a hole in Rabinowitch's problem. He enclosed one leaf of a tobacco plant in a glass chamber fitted with sensitive instruments for measuring CO2 in the air. The amount of CO2 decreases when the leaf is photosynthesizing under a strong electric light. It increases when the plant is respiring...
...look (the family sleeps all morning, siestas in the afternoon), Rosamond Bernier found a treasure trove of Picassos, most of them stacked dustily against the medical cabinets used by Dr. Pablin to keep plaster casts of his patients' deformed feet. Cherished but neglected, one Picasso canvas had a hole punched in it. In all, there were some 20 oils and sketches done by young Pablo at the age of 13 or 14-sure-stroked, somber portraits of Picasso's family, of Doña Lola dressed in a borrowed Communion dress, of Picasso's father, a painstaking...
...hole-in-one by Bruce Thurmond, two 70 stroke rounds on the same day by Captain Ted Cooney, and a decisive victory over powerful Williams in a practice match indicate the excellent potentialitic of this year's varsity golf team...