Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic situation. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives were grim. Behind them was a series of defeats in by-elections; ahead of them, demands from 5,000,000 British workers, led by the railwaymen, for a new round of wage boosts. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft doggedly stood the Tories' ground...
...stars give other reasons for bringing their children along. Comedian George Gobel says "all children have a need to identify with their dad's work." Arlene Francis puts Peter, 10, on camera because "I just like to have him with me. Some people don't want to go into their private lives, but I think we on TV belong to the public." Groucho Marx offers a more practical reason for having daughter Melinda, 11, as a guest: "She's not in my tax bracket. We can keep what she makes...
...Died. Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
...sauna, rocks are heated on a special Finnish stove, and water is poured over them at intervals, causing an instantaneous release of "dry" heat, according to club president Peter A. A. Berle, '58. Purists beat one another with birch twigs, and finish by racing from the 180* sauna into a snowbank. Berle called the sauna "very relaxing...
...Crimson Key will be forced to discontinue its annual Wellesley-Pine Manor bus service next year unless undergraduate support improves, Key president Peter B. Edleman '58 announced yesterday...