Word: rhode
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HISTORICALLY, the reigning princes ot Liechtenstein have chosen to live outside that hereditary principality, usually in their luxurious Austrian palaces Liechtenstein offers a prince neither size (it is one-seventeenth the size of Rhode Island, has only 16,000 people) nor scope. Switzerland, its western neighbor handles posts, customs and foreign interests...
...foreign physicians, can choose the most promising foreign medical school graduates, who have less difficulty getting past the examination hurdle. The pinch comes in hospitals that have no affiliation with a medical school, need A.M.A.A.H.A. accreditation to attract good U.S. graduates. Six of the twelve foreign-trained doctors in Rhode Island's State Hospital for Mental Diseases flunked the exams, and one New York City hospital faces loss of a quarter of its house staff...
...electronic twiddling from stations on earth. Even if it never does function properly, the narrow-angle camera alone will yield valuable weather information. But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots...
...attention turned suddenly from merrymaking to the grand entrance of a large, elder-statesman kind of gentleman. He was Herbert Claiborne Pell, former Ambassador to Portugal and Hungary, who had just arrived from London with his wife to see their son, Claiborne. After upsetting two veterans in the Rhode Island Democratic primary, Claiborne Pell was celebrating a 2-to-1 landslide win over his Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate...
...Rhode Island. The son of an Italian immigrant who operated a popular eatery in Lakewood, John Anthony Notte Jr., 51, was a college baseball star, a World War II naval officer in the Mediterranean and an up-from-the-wards politician who made good. A dapper, well-tailored gladhander, Democrat Notte has been so busy with his own long-range campaign for the governorship that his primary opponent accused him of neglecting his duties as lieutenant governor. A run-of-the-mill liberal, Notte is rated as a political bantamweight by neutrals and many Democrats...