Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, the college's black students were not in a conciliatory mood when they confronted Wellesley's administration last spring. The confrontation arose over acceptances for the incoming freshman class that had just been sent out. Included among the 500 girls accepted were 19 blacks. But of the 19, only seven chose to come to Wellesley...
...Farnsworth explained that he "couldn't say for sure" whether he made these comments, but he added that the statement attributed to him does have "some semblance of reality." He said that he definitely has not sent out any memorandum containing such a request...
...advocates countered that he is "a just, humble and good man," and "a voice of conscience among his colleagues." Some defenders have maintained that the charges against him were wrong. Novelist William Styron and others who recently met with the poet in Russia say that they are certain he sent the wire to the Soviet leaders. Evtushenko was so sickened by the invasion, Styron reports, that he told him in a dubious comparison: "Now we Russians are just like you Americans; we are part of the international power Mafia...
...restaurant where Barrios worked. Doctors at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital patched up his abdominal flesh wound, removed most of a shattered .22-cal. bullet from his brain, leaving him with only a slight headache and blurred vision. At that point, follow-up X rays sent Barrios into a spin for-dear life...
...cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder), resulting from the formation of stones in the gall bladder. Sometimes, the stones immediately signal their presence by causing sharp pain. In such cases, surgery is performed promptly. But many gallstones lie dormant for years-and it is this "silent" type that sent the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Martin A. Adson into debate with fellow surgeons...