Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIED. Samuel Rosen, 84, world-renowned ear surgeon who developed a revolutionary operation for curing otosclerosis, a common cause of deafness; of a blood clot; in Peking. He discovered the technique during an operation in 1952 when he accidentally jarred loose a tiny bone in the middle ear, immediately restoring the patient's hearing. After perfecting the procedure on hundreds of cadavers, he taught the operation all over the world, becoming a frequent visitor to China in the process...
Exactly 100 years ago next week, a ragtag group of tradesmen and industrial workers met in Pittsburgh under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, a cigarmaker from London, to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Ahead lay many battles against obstinate employers as unions fought for recognition: the Homestead and Pullman strikes in the 1890s, the bloody 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, Mich., when Walter and Victor Reuther were attempting to organize auto workers. But now, as the U.S. labor movement enters its second century, it faces equally serious problems: eroding membership and fading public support...
...mining the Underground's gold, police were able to move swiftly and surely. First to be snared in the dragnet were Samuel Smith, 37, and Nathaniel Burns, 35, following a gunfight with arresting officers in which Smith was killed. The pair had been spotted in New York City on a Queens highway. They were riding in a car bearing a license plate seen on another car at the Nyack Shootout. Last week their connection with the robbery was confirmed by a souvenir found in Smith's pocket: a spent .38-cal. bullet, which had apparently failed to penetrate...
...police and federal agents that just hours before their arrival, he had seen five people load the contents of an apartment into a tan van and other vehicles. From photographs, he and his wife identified the five: Cynthia Priscilla Boston, 33, and her common-law husband, William Johnson, 33; Samuel Smith; Donald Weems, 35, an escaped convict, former Black Panther and suspected Black Liberation Army member; and Marilyn Jean Buck, 34, chief gunrunner and the only white member of the B.L.A. Buck had already been linked to the case, since two safe houses and one set of getaway-car license...
...almost always a mistake for readers to confuse the first person singular with the novelist. Almost. Conan Doyle was not John H. Watson, M.D. Samuel Clemens was not Huckleberry Finn. And Raymond Chandler was not Philip Marlowe. But, as his letters reveal, no author ever verged closer to his creation...