Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he realized that he had somehow acquired a "phonographic" memory, Vag wondered if there might not be some bugs in its operation. After putting himself through a few exercises such as, "Name all the members of the Kingston Trio" and "List the titles of Eliot's Four Quartets," Vag was assured of his competency...
...propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Red rule in China. Just a step behind the two leaders loomed a tall, gaunt, grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below. His name: Liu Shao-chi. His rank: Chairman of the Chinese People's Republic. His potent role: the No. 2 man of Red China, and steely disciplinarian of the party...
...Hume put on the performance of his life. He yawned, hummed, shouted abuse, and tossed his black curls as witness after witness told what had happened that fatal morning. When the president of the court, mild-mannered Dr. Hans Gut, began with the formality of asking the prisoner his name, Hume snarled at the interpreter: "Tell that bum that he should know...
...substance that keeps the stored blood from clotting and makes it usable in transfusions is sodium citrate. The man who perfected the citration process back in 1915 is still active, though probably not one in a hundred of the millions who owe their lives to his transfusion method could name him. Unaccountably, he has never received a Nobel Prize...
...Gang's All Here (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) has the authors of Inherit the Wind once again flipping back in U.S. history to the real life 19203, this time to Warren G. Harding under the name of Griffith P. Hastings. Their portrait is a largely familiar one of a genial poker-playing mediocrity who is hoisted into the White House. His cronies are crooks whom he turns into Cabinet members and on whose strong right claws he leans for support. At the end the authors portray a Harding who commits suicide,* but not until...