Word: sargent
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...WHEN HE WAS AN unknown foreign policy wonk in the Kennedy Administration, Warren Wiggins wrote an impassioned treatise on the promise of Kennedy's still nascent Peace Corps, urging its leaders to fight to make it more than just a small agency to generate good publicity. On reading it, Sargent Shriver, the Corps's first director, who was then trying to define the agency, distributed the memo to his staff and fired off a 3 a.m. telegram demanding that Wiggins meet with him the next morning. Within four weeks, an Executive Order gave birth to the Peace Corps. Wiggins...
...stops on the European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young men moved in expatriate circles that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...
...entered the building, banging on doors to warn people to leave.When the firefighters arrived, the occupants of the building were leaving. MacDonald said that many of them came out without shoes or in their pajamas, “fleeing into the bitter cold.” BU opened its Sargent Activities Office to shelter the displaced residents—including non-BU affiliates—in a gymnasium.An MBTA bus reported to the scene of the fire to transport people to Sargent, where workers from the American Red Cross were waiting to assist people, MacDonald said. BU later identified...
...notched respectable finishes, coming in at 42nd and 53rd, respectively. For the men, sophomore David McCahill placed 49th with a final time of 33:38.2. Junior Oliver Burress trailed not too far behind his teammate, landing the 51st spot with a time of 33:56.7. The trifecta of Elsa Sargent, Sara Studebaker, and Laura Spector secured the top three spots for the Big Green in the women’s 10K race. The Dartmouth men also dominated the Nordic events as Michael Sinnott, Benjamin True, and Glenn Randall grabbed the first three positions. The ski team will next travel...
...violence and foul language. According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking among teenagers is no longer dropping as it did during the late 1990s, and smoking in films is partly responsible. "Movies deliver billions of glamorized pro-smoking messages to adolescents in this country," says James Sargent, M.D., a Dartmouth Medical School professor who researches the impact on children of movies with smoking scenes...