Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordering the first six girls to lie on the floor, the intruder used his knife to rip strips from a bunk-bed sheet and from a cotton dress, then tied the girls up. Meanwhile, three other nurses who had been out late-Sue Farris, Mary Jordan and Gloria Davy-returned home before their 12:30 a.m. curfew, were surprised by the intruder, and were forced to join his bedroom captives. "There were some light outcries by the girls who came in late, but it wasn't much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with...
...concentrated on refurbishing the Byrd image. Styling himself a "progressive conservative," he coolly ignored Boothe's invitations to debate, and parried his opponent's efforts to label him a segregationist. Though Byrd helped lead Virginia's "massive resistance" campaign against school integration in the late '50s, he proclaimed that such efforts are now "passé." Said he: "I am for education." Byrd, who has been serving in the Senate by appointment since Harry Sr.'s resignation in November, probably attracted some sympathy votes, since his father's illness was announced only a week before...
...late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve-tone system is entirely opposed to the laws of hearing...
...Established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, widow of the oil tycoon. Most of its grants, which have totaled as much as $7,000,000 a year, are given for medical education and community health...
Because of Hughes's habits, TWA was late ordering-and obtaining-jets, a lapse which let Pan American run away with the lucrative transatlantic trade for several years. Then, characteristically, Hughes ordered so many jets that even his fabulously profitable Hughes Tool Co. could not meet the bill. While he still could have done so, Hughes brushed off proposals that he give up a small part of his 78% ownership of TWA to raise money. In the end, forced to borrow $165 million or face receivership, he had to surrender operating control of TWA to the Metropolitan and Equitable...