Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refill. In Wellington, New Zealand, an anonymous blood donor called on Dr. John Mercer to donate a pint, was pronounced anemic, left with a pint more blood than when he arrived...
...week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries, she had left a Manhattan hospital, counted herself "lucky to be alive...
...Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round, Bassey's left eye was cut, and his right eye was beginning to close. Moore opened up with left hooks and right uppercuts that had the challenger tottering backward in a grotesque little dance. At the bell, Bassey weakly raised Moore's hand, then refused to come out for the eleventh...
Double Entry. In Charles City, Iowa, the Press ran a classified ad: "I will not be responsible for any debts other than my own. Kenneth Wagner, Nashua"; next day ran a followup: "I've paid all his bills. There's none left to pay. Mrs. Kenneth Wagner...
...straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader of the slightest religious instinct, Author Sitwell's long and learned journey is about as enlightening as a snatch of nursery rhyme. And Sitwell, being a Sitwell, may have intended just that...