Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tremendous Difference. Roberts professes to be unconcerned with the fact that he is using up his career pitching for a losing club. "Getting traded or staying isn't a deep ingrained thing with me," he says. "This club always could potentially win the pennant. Especially when I pitch, it isn't a fourth-place club. Usually they get the runs...
...thanked his doctors for repairing his facial burns. "Take a look at my face," he said. "Nearly perfect, isn't it?" Except for the eye pads, a reddish patch on his right cheek was the only apparent trace of the attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
...rich Mi Vida Mine are making money, have sewed up 90% of all production. Says Millionaire Steen himself: "The public has found out what we've known for a long time-that it's a damn hard job to find a good uranium mine. It isn't the bonanza that a lot of promoters led the public to believe. The crooked promoters and brokers killed their own market...
...highly critical of anything smacking of the paternal--although a role as a friendly uncle is at times appropriate. "A student has no right to expect his adviser to be a Father-Confessor," he says; "if he happens to find one, that is fine, as long as the adviser isn't too ready with advice. The adviser can be an amiable listener, but the student has no reason to expect him to be a sounding board...
...advisees. Most of them live either down the hall or up the stairs." The closeness, however, does not lead the adviser to oversee the student's affairs. As von Stade explains: "If there is trouble, we expect the advisers to let us know, but if there isn't we expect him not to probe...