Word: sabin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muzzle Covers On. From Okinawa, Formosa and Manila, 132 U.S. and 27 Nationalist Chinese ships had converged on the Tachens; Sabre jets of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing patrolled the sea lane that led back to Formosa. From Saigon had come Rear Admiral Lorenzo Sabin. where he had directed the evacuation of 214,000 Vietnamese. "We are going in with our muzzle covers on," said Sabin, "but we are prepared to go into action if we are opposed...
...rest of the world found comfort in the fact that the evacuation had been made in peace, and found reassurance in the unchallenged display of U.S. might. But the U.S. Navy's fighting men took little satisfaction in what they regarded as a reverse operation. Admiral Sabin did not blame the Chinese Reds for staying at home: "It would have been a stupid thing to pay in blood and lives for something they were going to get for nothing...
Died. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 81, one of America's first women scientists, who, at Johns Hopkins, probed the mysteries of the lymphatic system and the bloodstream (1902-25), went on to investigate new methods of combating tuberculosis, and in 1944 undertook a successful revamping of Colorado's ailing public health system; of a heart attack; in Denver...
Wrote Exhibitor Frank E. Sabin, from Eureka, Mont. (pop. 929): "[A Place in the Sun is] definitely not classed as entertainment by my patrons. A sordid sort of thing all through. [Montgomery] Clift and [Shelley] Winters just moped around for the first 80 minutes-then he drowned her and the story whipped up. His march to the electric chair was the windup of the thing. Jolly, what...
...fourth time Eleanor Roosevelt headed the annual Book of Knowledge list of the world's brainiest women. On the list for the third time: Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Anatomist Dr. Florence Reno Sabin, New York Times Foreign Correspondent & Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine Lenroot, Physicist Lise Meitner, Princess Elizabeth, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, Actress Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday, Mrs. Ogden Reid, publisher...