Word: monrovia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts had just pronounced the Salk anti-polio vaccine both safe and effective. Three years ago, University of California Psychologist Robert M. Gottsdanker was delighted when he succeeded in getting one of the first shots for daughter Anne Elizabeth," 5. Equally happy was Engineer Charles Phipps of Monrovia (near Los Angeles), who got a shot for his son James Randall, 15 months...
Uppie's fight against the world was honorable, but his "industrial democracy" is as dead as Eugene Debs. His main battle-against poverty-was won not really by his Socialist martyrs but by the capitalist villains. Nowadays, the Sinclairs live in Monrovia, Calif, and at 79 Uppie is as convinced as ever that he is a power in human affairs. He notes proudly that he is the author of three million books and pamphlets "flowing into every country in the world." He keeps up the old reformer's unreformed habit of issuing letters-to-the-editor on every...
...with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last; the car's air conditioning broke down, and as he sped through clouds of heavy red dust, Nixon sweated behind rolled-up windows...
...Loma Weekly, published by the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Wesley Sadler of the Lutheran mission in Monrovia, could not exist if Dr. Sadler had not created a written Loma language from the spoken dialect. Now the tribesmen are becoming literate in their own tongue, eventually will move on to the study of English, the country's official language...
...member of the Independent True Whig Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops set fire to Coleman's house as its defenders disappeared among the rubber trees. There was no sign of Coleman...