Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Martha Rountree beckons, big people in Washington come arunning. As mistress of ceremonies of the television show Meet the Press, Florida-born, belle-like Martha controls a precious segment of Sunday evening air for which politicians yearn as the hart panteth after the water-brooks. Last week Martha had a party, the gaudiest since Marie Antoinette opened at the Trianon, or at least since the night when a foreign ingredient got into Mrs. Murphy's chowder...
...Another, also with underactive adrenals, was about to have a small segment of a lung removed. Fellow patients kidded him into believing that he was going to lose the whole lung. His undue fear sent his adrenal output up. And this helped him through the operation in good shape...
Kemmerer had no alternative ("When they don't want me," he had often said, "I'll resign"). But when the announcement came out last week, his old campus seemed to adjust quickly to the news. For many months, a large segment at Houston had been advocating a new philosophy : the university is a big place now, and it needs a big name to head it. The case, said one Houstonian, is really quite simple: "Kemmerer has built the school into something bigger than himself...
...scoring strength of the Crimson came, as usual, from the attack segment of the team, as it accounted for 11 goals and all but two of the 12 assists...
...placed. Inside the box are a feeding trough, a metal lever, and several electrical appliances, such as lights, buzzers, and horns that can be regulated from the outside. When the box is closed, it provides a perfectly controlled environment, by which the experimenter can test a particular segment of the dog's behavior...