Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unidentified man was overcome and captured at about 10 p.m. last night after he tried to undress in front of Eliot Hall in the Radcliffe quadrangle. Eugene Pell '59 and another undergraduate assisted the night watchman in subduing the offender...
...Pell said that he was walking on Shepard St. in front of Eliot when he noticed two men scuffling on the porch of the hall. At first, Pell said, he thought nothing of it, but as he noticed more fighting, he turned around to help the night watchman. Another Harvard student also appeared on the scene to assist...
...ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control room where split-second decisions distilled the chaos into the crisp, orderly telecasts that brought the World Series to baseball's biggest audience-some 40 million all over the U.S., Canada and, for the first time, "over the horizon...
...English gentleman of leisure, had a painter's eye for human traits and a gossip columnist's passion for scandal. Both talents he diligently brought to his famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions of Aubrey's lusty...
...staunchly anti-Communist Turks are caught by geography between the Soviet Union and Syria. To guard their freedom, they keep 500,000 men under arms, and even with U.S. aid have a heavy defense burden. In addition, after centuries of feudalistic Ottoman rule, the Turks have tried to rush pell-mell into a modern industrial economy. Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes has spent more for public improvements than the economy could stand, and the Turkish economy today is plagued by inflation and hobbled by a shortage of consumer goods. The Turks have a word for it. The word is yok, which...