Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start of the third and final four minute quarter, the tally rested at four-all. Then the Techs scored, the whistle blew, and 12 tired swimmers climbed out of the water. The girls claimed that the time really wasn't up, but they would call the game quits for the sake of "male supremacy...
...operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...
John Emery recalls that she would start drinking after "someone would say the wrong thing at a party and she would take offense." A onetime secretary-companion notes: "She's like a child . . . She broods all night. She'd keep me up hour after hour going over everything that'd been said, worrying about what she'd said and done." Herman Shumlin once said: "Like all important people, she is always filled with fear-the gnawing, consuming fear that she may not be quite good enough...
Indeed, the grosser the gore, the higher the moral standards. One sketch, showing a sprawling lady with her dripping throat slit from ear to ear, was indignantly rejected because her skirt was rucked up above one knee. And, from the start, profanity was simply not tolerated. When the eaters of Sweeney Todd's delicious pies were told that their mouths were full of human flesh, they delicately exclaimed: "Good gracious! . . . Confound...
...Moffle, who ran so yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, praised end Art Hyde for his great block of safety man Nadherny . . . "The play was just an ordinary sweep," Moffle explained, "and then all of a sudden everything opened up." . . . "I hope this is the start of a long friendship," Coach Valpey said to Hickman at the post-game press conference . . . "Well, I'm certainly doing my part," Hickman drawled...