Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart attack, cancer. Rumors of these illnesses-and worries about how they would affect his fitness for office-hovered around Franklin Delano Roosevelt as early as 1936. By 1944, when he was 62 and running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the rumors had become persistent. Vice Admiral Ross McIntire, Roosevelt's personal physician, insisted during the campaign that the President was in "excellent condition for a man of his age." But on April 12, 1945, less than three months after his fourth Inauguration, F.D.R. died...
...real tragedy of Kubler-Ross is that while she has taught others to accept death, apparently she can no longer accept it herself...
...choice of Tournedos Rossini or Chicken Sauvaroff, plus a special meringue dessert named Peach Erebus. That dish was to be served as the aircraft passed one of the most spectacular sights of the trip: 12,400-ft. Mount Erebus, the polar region's largest volcano, located on Ross Island off the Antarctic coast. (Erebus in Greek mythology was the son of Chaos and represented unfathomable darkness...
MARRIED. Amanda Burden, 36, fashion-plate daughter of the late society queen Barbara ("Babe") Paley; and Steven Ross, 52, acquisition-minded chairman of Warner Communications; both for the second time; in East Hampton...
...public school system. Put in different schools so they will not fall back to their private communication, they speak jerky, passable English. But they are woefully behind in social and emotional development. "I keep reading that they are so normal now," says Catherine Pope, Ginny's instructor at Ross Elementary School. "It simply isn't true." Gracie can repeat a sentence "imbedded" with a clause and add numbers up to a total of five, sometimes higher. Both girls have motor-coordination problems. One of Ginny's teachers discovered that she lacks what Jean Piaget defines as "object...