Word: jude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second place. Nichols had his game under control now. He only hit one tree in 18 holes, sank putts of 15, 18, 35 and 51 ft. for a three-under 67 and a 72-hole total of 271. "All week long, I've been praying to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes," said Nichols, whose previous earnings on the tour this year amounted to $15,745. The victory was worth $18,000, plus another $22,500 in bonuses...
...admiring ladies who thronged about her husband in London after he became famous: "They are the poison," said Emma complacently. "I am the antidote." Emma never let Hardy forget that his literary reputation was vastly inflated, and after she failed to talk him out of publishing that "vicious" novel Jude the Obscure, she lost virtually all interest in her husband's writings. But at the same time her interest in her own innocuous poems continued to grow...
What trips Bert up is his decision to live in the suburbs with his wife and five children. In the wealthy town of Bloodbury, Bert is appalled by the comfortable banality of the faith practiced at St. Jude's-a church that strikes him as a mere "antiseptic comfort station." The wheyfaced priests at St. Jude's, "moving knowingly from the book to the cruets," seem to be "a million light years" away from Father Danny. Even Bert's wife fails him; her romantic notion of her husband is that he is "her serene man of faith...
...Line. To make such application universally available, the machines should be portable and battery-operated. And a Johns Hopkins team, says Dr. James R. Jude, has perfected just such a portable defibrillator. It weighs only 45 lbs., can be powered by dry cells or a car battery. Through electrodes applied to the skin, one below the throat and one below the left nipple, the compact machine delivers 2,000 to 2,200 volts in a one-two pulse-first in one direction, then in the other. When a heart-disease patient or an electric-shock victim has a fibrillation attack...