Word: mays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself as a "simple man from a country of simple ways," but the U.S. soon found that his position on world affairs involved complexities, not to say contradictions. To Congress, he declared that India would not "acquiesce in any challenge to man's freedom from whatever quarter it may come. Where freedom is menaced, or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot and shall not be neutral...
...last May Noel Field, ostensibly bound for Prague, left his wife in Switzerland and disappeared. After two months Herta Field went to Prague to search for him. She found no trace. She sent a plea to his brother to come and help. Brother Hermann Field, a sometime architect, professor, refugee worker and tourist guide, flew posthaste to Prague and from there to Warsaw in search of Noel...
...wrote the gentle essayist Charles Lamb, in phrases ardent as a lover's whisper, "is no less provocative of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices...
Doctors are keenly aware that the antibiotics (sulfa drugs, penicillin, streptomycin, etc.) have two great dangers: 1) sometimes the drug has a poisonous effect on the patient, and 2) the bacteria under attack may develop a tolerance for the drug. Last week doctors at the 13th Congress of the International Society of Surgery in New Orleans were reminded of another danger: antibiotics speed up the clotting time of the blood, thus subject the patient to the risk of death from blood clots forming, breaking loose, and being carried through the heart into the lungs...
...Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...