Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immunologists swarmed into Atlantic City for meetings of their consortium, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, to tell of advances in their fight to gain life-saving knowledge. Outstanding items: ¶ The pituitary gland, long given homage as producer of the "master" hormone ACTH,* is itself the slave of a truly imperial hormone secreted by a part of the brain, reported Baylor University's Physiologist Roger Guillemin. From the hypothalamus, an ancient part of the brain, Guillemin and Baylor colleagues have isolated a highly potent fraction, "hypothalamic D," which puts the pituitary to work when the animal...
...vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
...valley, Fate Laird is forced to decide in the end, is "like a pretty woman loaded with syphilis." The chief disease carrier is a dropsical old shark called Book Gresham, the tag end of Tuxahatchie's first family. In defiance of the 13th Amendment, Book Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations of Northern folk...
...National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April...
Actually, attempts to disobey a law in support of some larger cause are not at all unknown in American history. The Underground Railroad before the Civil War was clearly designed to side-track the Fugitive Slave Law and speed escaping slaves to Canada. Suffragettes, too, were willing to break ordinance after ordinance to extend the vote...