Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mater of his father and uncle Clarence. His mother (now a spry 75, still lives in Poughkeepsie) could muster part of the money, and Clifford made the rest by working at odd jobs, which included playing the pipe organ at churches on Sunday. In his junior year, Clifford met Ruth Miriam Smith, a freshman at the New Jersey College for Women. They were married four years later, now have two daughters, a son and one granddaughter, who calls her grandfather by a nickname that has clung to him since his childhood: "Buddy...
...scientist's disciplined mind, and a burning curiosity about people as they are. Social Scientist Riesman believes U.S. society today to be very different from the picture of it that Americans carry in their heads. To make his point, Riesman presents to his students three primitive societies from Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture: 1) the Pueblo Indians are peaceable and cooperative, with little violent emotion; 2) the Dobu Islanders in the Pacific are suspicious, jealous of women and property; they spend their lives trying to get something for nothing by magic, theft or fraud; 3) the Kwakiutl...
...Drop to Drink. Also at the center have been two women, not subject to the draft but giving a year's service at the behest of their churches: 24-year-old Ruth Hepner (Assemblies of God) of Hamilton. Mont, and 22-year-old Florence Shetler (Brethren) of Robinson, Pa. Both have spent weeks taking tiny daily doses of cortisone and giving frequent blood samples so that doctors can measure the rate of its disappearance from the bloodstream. For still more refined studies they have taken hormones tagged with radioactive atoms...
...have to wind. But we sure done a lot of windin'." For a while the extortionist plays in-and-out-the window with the hot-car ring, but the game soon ends with the Feds an easy winner all around, and the extortionist's victim (Ruth Roman) sighing gratefully up at the great big wonderful...
...midseason Willie Mays and his home-run bat were the hottest pair in the National League. Swinging with the delight of a schoolboy and the skill of an old pro, the loose, limber centerfielder of the New York Giants had clouted 30 homers to threaten Babe Ruth's alltime record of 60 in one season...