Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conversations run the whole range of policy problems and mutual personal interests. Both are ardent anglers, and Milton, who trolls for walleyed pike in Wisconsin's Land O'Lakes district, gives away no points to Ike. "I am every bit as good a fisherman," he says firmly, "as my brother." Both are ferociously intense painters, Ike in oil and Milton in painstaking watercolors. Before a slipped disk took him off the fairways, Milton shot an unorthodox but Ike-worthy game of golf (high 80s). Now and then the brothers get together with friends for an evening of bridge...
...Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Columbia River, "only the 43 miles between the Ozette River and the Hoh remain unshadowed by a road and still bordered by unspoiled forest land. Yet, in the entire country, this is the biggest such stretch we have left." The speaker: William O. Douglas, 59, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation's foremost man scout. Occasion: a three-day hike from Lake Ozette to Lapush, paced by the Justice-leading his wife, daughter, twelve newsmen and 55 Boone companions-in demonstration against local outcries for a tourist-drawing...
...Medical researchers have been trying for years to prove that people with a particular blood type are especially prone to certain diseases. Example: Type O blood is supposed to run with a high rate of peptic ulcer. Wait, says a hardheaded Swiss, Geneva's Dr. Alexander Manuila, in the A.M.A. Journal. It may be true, but cannot be proved by available data-the claims have been based on inadequate studies and inaccurate statistics...
...sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance; in Spain the custom persisted and was carried into the New World when Spanish colonists began to settle the land that is now New Mexico and Colorado. First to cross the Rio Grande, in 1598, was the expedition of Don Juan Oñate, whereupon, according to one historian, "Don Juan went to a secluded spot where he cruelly scourged himself, mingling bitter tears with the blood that flowed from his many wounds...
...Rays for the Bonk Book. What keeps many clubs going is the yearly assessment to cover the losses. Others, like Chicago's Tarn O'Shanter, which has opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens...