Word: roe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victims are males. The disease smolders indefinitely, but is marked by acute flare-ups with excruciating pain in swollen, inflamed joints. In rare cases, it can threaten life by depositing uric acid crystals in the kidneys or heart. Sufferers must avoid foods rich in purines-yeast, herring roe, sardines, asparagus, and many organ meats such as sweetbreads, liver, heart and kidneys. Other treatment: colchicine (an ancient remedy extracted from the autumn crocus), ACTH, phenylbutazone (a powerful but potentially dangerous drug). Another drug, probenecid, is no good for acute attacks and may actually aggravate them, but paradoxically is the best long...
From the days when theatre at Harvard meant a handful of dedicated participants, there are now more interested people than can be comfortably accommodated. Harold R. Scott '57, who has been a leader in this revival of spirit, playing the dual roe of actor (John of Gaunt in the Eliot Drama Group's Richard II) and director (the HDC's Something Wild), estimated that there are "about 200 people from Harvard and Radcliffe who have performed in one show or another...
...side, Britain has spent upwards of $70 million on a lost fleet since 1941. At first, planemakers laid their plans around huge flying boats ideal for empire routes, where long runways and well-equipped airfields were few and far between, ordered four models, including a gigantic, ten-engined Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat at a cost of some $22 million. As it turned out, big airfields were built in virtually every corner of the world during World War II, thus making Great Britain's flying boats obsolete...
...entering," said Quarles, "a period of aviation technology in which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics will begin to appear." As an example of aircraft-to-come, he told about "another project under contract with A. V. Roe Canada, Ltd., which could result in disk-shaped aircraft somewhat similar to the popular concept of a flying saucer. An available picture, while only an artist's conception, could illustrate such an object...
...magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge off any social satire that remained in its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by playing the script as farce; U.S. Steel introduced the TV audience to Broadway Comic Menasha Skulnik with a Runyonesque comedy about...