Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smell of kerosene permeates the tiny, corrugated-iron shack at the end of a dirt road in Kent. A kettle steams on the little black stove. Amid such bleak surroundings, a scrawny, brown-eyed girl of 20 named Bridget Poole and a bedridden old woman smile and laugh together. "People think it's strange," says Elizabeth ("Queen") Allen, 83. "Such a young girl living with an old lady like me. But it seems perfect ly natural to us two. I think that's be cause love is there...
...delegation to the legislature had also sagged in 1965. There had been a leadership fight for the Speaker's chair, and in the ensuing struggle, John Toomey lost the chair of the Ways and Means Committee. Whereas he enjoyed the ear of the former, retired speaker, John F. "Iron Duke" Thompson, he had no c'ose relationship with his successor. Sargeant's bid to remove the remaining vestiges of the veto did not run into opposition from the new leadership in either the House or the Senate...
That left it up to number-four man Joe. Tibbetts to clinch the match, which he almost did. Tibbetts and his Eli foe were even coming into eighteen, and both hit long drives on the 420-yard finishing hole. The Yalie, using a four-iron from a good 180 yards out, hit a remarkable approach three feet from the pin, and Tibbetts shot up short. But he came back with a great chip inside the Eli's ball, putting the pressure of his opponent, who calmly sank his three-footer for a birdie...
Argonne National Laboratory physicists have also examined iron meteor ites, air and sea water in a vain attempt to find quarks that had combined with stable atoms. Instead of being electrically neutral, they reasoned, such atoms would have fractional charges imparted by the quarks-enabling scientists to separate them out in an electric field and analyze them. Because quarks would more likely combine with heavier atoms, one scientist has suggested looking for quark-bearing atoms in oysters, which tend to concentrate the heavier elements in the seas...
...program is scheduled to begin in Fall, 1968. In the meantime a faculty-administration committee composed of members of both schools will try to iron out the wrinkles...