Word: nomes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their way to the Yale meet, the Freshmen defeated the best Dartmouth and Princeton Freshmen teams in recent years. The Indians had the bad luck to be the team participating in the Crimson's first nome meet, and lost by the telling score of 60-26. The Tigers were more fortunate. A somewhat rough flight to Princeton preceded a Freshman victory there by only...
Agony Hour. Alaska is virtually doctorless. In the great land's entire western half (250,000 sq. mi.), only Nome boasts a private practitioner. The job is mainly up to seven public-health physicians, including Dr. Brownlee, at five tiny U.S. hospitals run by the Alaska Native Health Service. They serve only 30,000 people, but visiting patients is usually out of the question. For hours at a time, every night, the "agony hour" radio dialogue goes...
Within moments after the Senate vote, the news flashed 3,500 miles. Scores of homemade 49-star flags broke out across Alaska.* In Skagway, women paraded wearing embroidered badges: "Bigger than Texas, Better than California-God's Country." On the western shores, in Nome and Kotzebue, the populace torched big, bright bonfires that they hoped could be seen across the strait in Siberia. Even the antistatehood Alaskans, mostly in Sitka and the capital city of Juneau, joined in the bell ringing and dancing...
Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...
...have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty. The forest bird is his only Venetian-blind moment, though if one has mastered a sort of scooping motion, one can manage a few slats while Brünnhilde ho-yo-to-hoes . . . Parsifal makes me want...