Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mighty Yankees, winners of 28 pennants and 20 World Series, were now in showbiz. The terms called for CBS to pay Yankee Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb $11.2 million cash for 80% of the franchise. Topping and Webb would retain 10% each until 1969, after which CBS had the option of buying them out. Until then, Topping would remain as president and operating boss, running the club as an "independent" subsidiary...
...principal architect of defeat, suggests Larrabee, is the man who wasn't there: Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney. A gambler, always in debt, he had enough ships in the West Indies in 1781 to retain command of the /western Atlantic. But first he went off on an orgy of legalized piracy to seize and loot the rich little Dutch colony of St. Eustatius. Then, complaining that he was suffering from "the gout and the gravel," he sailed back to England in the luxury of one of his biggest ships...
There is no doubt about IUCDS' relatively high effectiveness. If 100 wives use no contraceptives, 90 will become pregnant in a year; with the rhythm method, 40 will, and with diaphragm or condoms, from two to 20. Among 100 women who can retain IUCDS, there is, on the average, only one pregnancy a year. That is as near perfection as the protection from the pills...
...young Israeli veterinarian went to work on the ship of the desert. The answer, says Dr. Kalman Perk, 34, of Rehovot's Hebrew University, is in the camel's bloodstream. The plasma has an extraordinary high content of a kind of albumin, which enables the blood to retain its water and maintain its volume and fluidity even when the water in the camel's tissues has been markedly depleted...
...Morroe ultimately comes off best. Beset by his companions, in a drunken peroration Morroe appeals to his dead friend: "Leslie, he begged, intercede for me. I am no big intellect. I am no bargain. I watch too much television. I read, but I do not retain. I am not lost exactly, but I am still nowhere. I am the servant of no great cause. I follow the recommendations of the Consumer's Research Bulletin...