Word: oak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep a vampire in his grave is to bury him face down with an oak stake through his heart while a priest reads the Lord's Prayer backward. Devoutly French politicians wished it were as easy to keep Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky in his grave. On the boulevards Alexandre Stavisky, in wax, shared honors with the original tub in which Marat was stabbed, star exhibits in the venerable Musee Grevin...
...laboratory at Lynn three electrical engineers, two nurses and Dr. Foster stood by while swarthy, black-mustached Dr. Michou stretched himself out on a big oak table. Dr. Foster made two inch-deep incisions. Dr. Michou hoisted up his buttocks. The engineers thrust a small steel cone attached to the 250-lb. magnet into one of the incisions, switched on a 3½-h.p. current. Nothing happened. The cone was drawn out, inserted in the second incision. After one breathless minute there was a tiny click. Seven voices cried...
...Oak Park, Ill., having slept through two birthdays, an attack of lobar pneumonia and the marriage and maternity of her first nurse, Patricia Maguire, 28, victim of lethargic encephalitis, last week ended her second year of sleeping by sleeping on. She has lately begun to sit up, eat solid food...
...What happened to her trained nurse while Patricia Maguire of Oak Park, Ill. lay sleeping...
...known in Washington last year as British naval attaché. "This is your ship. Captain," said the Admiral. "Might I ask what you propose to do?" When he heard what the ebullient Irish Captain Macnamara proposed to do, the Admiral's eyebrows rose straight up to the embroidered oak leaves on his cap. To Captain Macnamara, who had gone punting many a time as a boy, mud was no stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck...