Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, Ben Bella had issued a sheaf of pacifying orders. From now on, he declared, Algiers would be a "demilitarized city" under the control of a police force loyal to the Politburo. The often-postponed national elections were rescheduled for Sept. 16. Ben Bella also took personal credit for having brought an end to the fighting. That seemed only fair to most Algerians: after all, Ben Bella had started it. But his troubles-and Algeria's -were only beginning...
...teaching pharmacology, was a new employee at FDA in September 1960. Her first major assignment was to pass on the application of Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. for a license to market thalidomide in the U.S. under the trade name Kevadon.* Along with the application came a sheaf of reports on years of animal testing and human use of the drug in Europe. There was no hint that the drug had any undesirable side effects, and Merrell pressed hard for quick approval. But Dr. Kelsey was puzzled because the drug did not put animals to sleep. She wondered...
...dandy pony). The book that seems certain to be this year's small mad success is not written in Latin, and it is not really a children's book. But it is, or is claimed to be, a child's book. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, a sheaf of very severe, very funny essays about adult nonsense, shows the world of Louisville as it was seen in 1904 by ten-year-old Virginia Cary Hudson, then a pupil in an Episcopal boarding school. Its publishers say, word of honor, that it is Virginia's work, discovered decades...
Lenin was moved almost to tears by Beethoven, and he loved flowers; once, gazing at a clump of broken lilac branches, he murmured: "It pains me, you know." But Lenin could also sign a sheaf of blank execution orders, leaving Trotsky to fill in the names. Last week Izvestia splashed a story across its pages designed to show that Lenin could feel as kindly toward people as toward flowers...
...cult and culture of the consumer that saddens Poet-Professor Jarrell, and in several speeches to academic audiences (the book is a sheaf of speeches and book introductions-the sort of collection that writers publish when they haven't written anything), he makes most of the familiar complaints. The intellectual is homeless; the poet is campus-bound; today's grammar-school education is flaccid; the American is merely a well-trained product buyer who knows, when in Weimar, "how to buy a Weimaraner." JarrelFs lectern jokes are rather good ("People who live in a Golden Age usually...