Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the major parties grew shrill in their attacks on each other. Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
Touted Wide. Medical researchers and big, blond Dr. John R. Mote, head of Armour Laboratories, would be happier if publicity on ACTH could have been delayed until their work was farther advanced. But the results of the first experimental treatments were too good to be withheld. The laboratories and clinics known to be using ACTH experimentally were bombarded with unanswerable requests from arthritis sufferers for a supply of the drug...
...R. R. HORNER...
...picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst legend: "Unspeakable sadness is burned deep in the eyes, the hopeless expression of Fritz, caught in torturers' trap...
Hooked. In Gaines, Pa., Raymond R. Cole boasted to friends about the 28-in. brown trout he had caught with his bare hands, learned too late from Justice of the Peace Roger Stevens that catching fish with the hands is illegal. Fine...