Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to its advocate, Peter Solomon, the proposed charities committee would be free from Student Council control and have an executive board representing various student activities. It is argued that an independent directorate would be less prone to baleful political pressure in choosing charities for which to solicit. Solomon feels that students would regard such a set-up as more representative than the present...
...hospital patient who complains that the water in his bedside carafe is not fit to drink is usually right, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, the stuff could kill him. It was patients' complaints that set a team of Harvard University physicians and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital bacteriologists to checking bedside water in 24 of Boston's nongovernment hospitals. What they found was far worse than they had feared...
...more than a decade Morros went through the motions of espionage. He could tell the Russians little they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history...
Romanoff and Juliet. Playwright Peter Ustinov proves that his bland international farce would be lost without Actor Peter Ustinov. In CHICAGO...
Warren's humor, and his ability to suffer in an heroic and almost appalling quiet, are noted by Lanman. The Sanskrit scholar once joked with Warren about the latter's trouser knees which were frayed owing to his constant kneeling. Warren answered, "Ah, but when Saint Peter sees those knees, he'll say, "Pass right in, sir, pass right...