Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEMPEL: May I say a few things before we continue? I'll admit I nipped, [but] even riding down in the taxicab, I said to myself just now, I says, ahhh, Dan gave me a damn good break . . . and I came off with $50,000 . . . Unfortunately, I piddled it away through my own stupidity, and my wife's influence, etc. And also the whole thing. Let me tell you the whole thing in gist...
...justified their public silence on the subject on the ground that their duty was to hold the church together. The rest were "passives"-older men who favor integration but have a prudent eye cocked on retirement. Their specialty, said Psychologist Pettigrew, was praying for guidance, which is "how to say something without being heard...
...consignment"). The venture's most useful aim is one never before achieved-nobody really knows the reliability of any of the more widely used contraceptives. "This is going to be an historical trial," Wright wrote happily to his guinea pigs last week. "It is probably too much to say that you will enjoy participating in it, but we hope it will not be too much for you both and that you manage to stay the course...
When laymen say that someone died of a broken heart, they really mean a broken ego. Physicians agree that a deep blow to one's personality may lower physical resistance in some cases. Poorly handled losses have already been pointed to as triggers for many diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis, ulcerative colitis, heart failure. Question remains: does ego-damage really precipitate illness...
...Moon hung in the August sky like a ball of orange light that cast an orange sheen over the magenta sea; Sail shows a ghostly boat slipping silently through a sea of rapid blue and white strokes. "When people ask me how long it took," Avery explained. "I say 30 years. That's how long the preparation took...