Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TiME...
After a typical run of humdrum assignments as a U.S. Public Health Service surgeon, Van Slyke found himself at World War II's end investigating the potency of penicillin as a treatment for venereal disease. When the price of penicillin plummeted, freeing money previously earmarked for this project. Van Slyke was assigned to distribute $400,000 in grants for medical research. With this modest sum, Van Slyke began in 1946 by cautiously asking medical schools whether they could tse any money. He was promptly deluged with requests, and Congress gradually upped its medical research approprialtion...
...handled the Little Rock school integration crisis indecisively. He was concerned about the gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled he to an aide: "Let's go ahead with our idea-right now, tonight...
...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...
...Hatful of Rain. Horror in a humdrum living room; with the wifely love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the dope addiction of Don Murray (TIME...