Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such types as Goldfine must be curbed, for they wreak havoc on honest and law-abiding citizens (I do not mean Adams), who accept the largesse unsuspectingly...
...Doctor an Hour? But before anybody can boost research to rocket speeds, the committee pointed out, the U.S. must more than double the number of people engaged in it-from 20,000 to 45,000. And this means not only more technicians but more physicians, whose training is long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted...
...sings in an unpretentious, mellow baritone, turns Seventy-Six Trombones into as rapturous a piece of high-stepping bravura as ever brought down a house. His portrayal of a likable cad is a fine job of acting, but he does more than act and sing. He kicks a mean one-step, dances the Castle Walk. And in an inspired number that has already made Choreographer Onna White a big name on Broadway, he joins the dancing company in a softshoe, tippy-toe library ballet that is a triumph of precision and gaiety...
...svelte blonde in a black sheath dress, with mink stole draped casually over her right arm, stopped during an inspection of a new apartment house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week and gushed: "It's the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. But, I mean, it's even nicer than our house." Near her, a trim, wavy-haired man gravely replied: "Thank you, madam." For Norman Tishman, 56, president of Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co., the compliment was no surprise; his company had planned the building to be the most luxurious cooperative...
...cave. Much of it is a sheer adventure yarn, full of javelin-play, wrestling, bull dancing (the Cretan version of bullfighting) and those gory sudden deaths and bloody double dealings to which the ancient Greeks were so prone that they probably invented the serene idea of the "golden mean" as an antidote...