Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this case, his ministers take the responsibility for his acts. But the King has acted on his own against the advice of his government . . . What is even more serious, he refrained from informing his ministers of his intentions ... A minister who bears the responsibility has a right to know the intentions of his King...
...wife did not know the story; all she knew was that her husband could not be a traitor. But old friends shunned her. Her 13-year-old son Yaakov was expelled from his Boy Scout troop; she tried to keep the news from him, worked out stratagems to keep him indoors. "There were stories that we had a radio transmitter hidden in the refrigerator," she recalled, "that we signaled the Arabs from the window, that we hid the money the British paid us under the floor. But," she added bitterly, "no one ever came to investigate...
British workers are just beginning to get uneasy about the health plan and the controls it brought, McPherrin says, but they are still for it. "When prodded into discussing the cost of the service to him as a taxpayer, the worker begins to realize that he does not know much about the cost and this fact worries him . . . But he is not ready to turn against the health scheme. Even if he were, there is no place for him to turn...
...glass locket, the size of a silver dollar, containing what looked like a pressed blossom. It was part of the original mold from which he extracted penicillin 21 years ago. Then Fleming set out for Rochester, Minn., and other research centers to do some personal research: he wants to know what details other workers have found out about the way penicillin works in the bloodstream. He also wants to learn more about the newer antibiotics: streptomycin, neomycin and aureomycin...
Said Milles, who considers the statue one of the best things he has ever done: "Greek and other artists always depicted Pegasus with the rider on his back, while I visualize the poet flying independently . . . both animal and man having expressions of longing for something, we don't know what . . ." A few visitors called Pegasus the most improbable thing they had ever seen in their lives; many more gasped in sheer admiration...