Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks Braithwaite's students met him with indifference or open hostility. They learned little, muttered about the "bleeding cheek" of the "black bastard" when he corrected them. Couples necked openly in the halls, sullenly waited as he passed to begin again...
...look at their individual and collective psyches. At famed Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Health Secretary Flemming rang in national Mental Health Week by clanging a "mental health bell" forged from the shackles once used to restrain patients. The volunteer National Association for Mental Health and its branches staged open-hospital days across the country, persuaded thousands of outsiders to come see for themselves what it is like on the inside. And in Philadelphia, birthplace of U.S. psychiatry and (in 1844) of the American Psychiatric Association, more than 3,000 psychiatrists met for the association's 115th annual meeting...
...Sleeping and waking are the tidal rhythms of a child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish mop of blond hair and slightly open mouth ("He's saving up strength to go on living...
...troops assemble on a bluff for a "chickie run." Jim doesn't see the point of the affair, but Buzzy reassures him. ("You gotta' do somethin', don't you?") Jim loses the race, but Buzzy loses a lot more when he can't get the door of his car open before it rolls over the cliff. Except for his loyal followers who decide to wreak revenge upon Jim, not too many are deeply disturbed by Buzzy's demise...
...keep the Crimson shell from drawing ahead, the Penn stroke moved up to a 34, but was almost a length behind at the mile mark. Coming through the bridge a half-mile from the finish, Penn was rowing a 35 and the Crimson a 32 with open water between them...