Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, as a fourth patient of the chief surgeon's returned to robust health, Rudloff was particularly careful to make a note of his home telephone number, in case of unforeseen accident. "That won't be necessary," the patient's wife told the nurse. "My husband will be coming home very soon." But Rudloff was persistent. "One never knows," he said darkly. A day or two later, when the patient suddenly died, his widow demanded an autopsy. A lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in the corpse. Confronted, Nurse Rudloff confessed to killing all four patients...
...Philadelphia, robust Robin Roberts, 27, pitched the feeble Phillies to an nth-inning 5-4 victory over the New York Giants, winning his 20th game of the year, became the first National Leaguer to turn the trick for five consecutive seasons since the Giants' Carl Hubbell, the "Old Meal Ticket...
...varsity stayed in the game, however, scoring again in the fourth on a Yale miscue and a robust single to center by catcher George MacDonald...
...second day observers got a closer look of genius at work. As the orchestra hushed to a quiet, the old man came onstage, baby-pink and robust. He was chewing his favorite cherry pastilles. Titian-haired Soprano Nelli was all set for her first solo, Ritorna Vincitor!, from Aïda. The maestro conducted vigorously. Whispered a technician in the control booth: "What a man! Look at that beat." With the run-through and actual recording completed, the playback started. Toscanini listened intently, poring over the score, at times reconducting the music. In his high-collared rehearsal jacket, he looked...
...bring the dying art of salesmanship back to its robust prewar vigor, many a company thinks that the trick is to enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced...