Word: joiner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longtime leader of the Radical Socialist Party, a gourmet and bon vivant, Herriot was for 52 years mayor of Lyon, five times minister, and three times Premier of France. An inveterate joiner (some 300 organizations), Herriot was so outraged by the Russian rape of Hungary that he resigned from the Franco-Soviet Friendship Society-and when he asked the name of the society's president, to address his resignation to, he discovered it was himself...
...West to provide foreign-language experience in the elementary grades (French, Spanish, German). Bellevue also cut grade and age barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
...then becomes a plastic (Ostamer) that hardens in a few minutes in the bone marrow. Then the wound is covered with a dry, sterile dressing. What makes the glue particularly effective is that bone cells grow through as well as around the glue, which thus serves as a natural joiner of bone ends...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Ernest Joiner, 47, editor of the weekly Ralls, Texas Banner (circ. 1,175), planted a cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner...
GARRETH E. JOINER Quito. Ecuador...