Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career: After a year as a soldier in World War I, he built up a reputation as a defender of the underdog. Changed his Liberal sympathies in 1925, ran first of four unsuccessful races as a Tory, losing in one to famed Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Elected in 1940, has since 1945 been the only Tory M.P. from the Liberal and socialist stronghold of Saskatchewan. Won leadership of the Conservatives in December 1956, succeeded ailing, standoffish George Drew...
...constitutional contention, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was left with two choices: to resign immediately, or to hang on and face a test in the House. A group of Liberal ministers, hopeful that the government could win small-party support, desperately tried to persuade him to stay on. But the aging (75) Prime Minister was resolved to resign and let John Diefenbaker become Prime Minister of Canada...
Earnest Yearnings. Baring-Gould has more than 130 books to his credit. His sermons alone fill more than 20 volumes. He wrote a 16-volume Lives of the Saints and a weighty treatise on the Origin and Development of Religious Belief that moved Prime Minister Gladstone to award him a crown living (an ecclesiastical appointment at the dispensation of the government). He also wrote 30 novels plus stories and character sketches; he was an active archaeologist, and he busily searched out and transcribed old country songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there...
...rant"). But as the ancient scourges were being brought under control, influenza occasionally became more lethal. Finally, in 1918-19, it erupted in a global pandemic, one of the worst disease disasters in history, which claimed at least 15 million dead-many of them, unaccountably, young adults in their prime. Still the cause of influenza was unknown...
...immunity lasting up to two years. In 1940 came the discovery of type B virus, and the realization that it belonged to a different immunologic family-vaccination against type A gave no immunity against B. and vice versa. Later came recognition of type C and a distant cousin, A-prime. A polyvalent vaccine gave limited protection against these. But there was another trouble: type A proved to be especially capable of mutation-changing its biological nature. Result: a vaccine effective against it in 1950 may be of no use against the 1957 crop...