Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proteins on the surface of the cell, like Folkman's Angiogenesis Factor, which are foreign to the victim. Genetically, too, "the cancer cell is of a given differentiated type that loses control of its own growth," Benacerraf says. He is on the fourth floor of Building D at the stolid gray Med School quadrangle, and when he alludes to other investigations of cancer, it is usually by reference to the floor or building on the quadrange where the research is being conducted. His only apparent bias seems to be against the clinicians, whose "gross" methods of extinguishing cancer...
Benn swapped places with Energy Minister Eric Varley, a stolid Wilson loyalist who had also campaigned against the EEC but less noisily than Benn. Education Minister Reginald Prentice, a leading pro-Marketeer, was switched to the Ministry of Overseas Development as a gesture of evenhandedness. Although the Overseas Ministry is technically sub-Cabinet, Prentice was allowed to keep his Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear...
...homestead, worked his way up to become first a successful lawyer and then the most popular governor in Wyoming's history. He is also conservative enough to help mend Ford's political fences with the G.O.P.'s right wing. Beyond that, Hathaway, though somewhat stolid, is a proven administrator capable of running a 56,000-person department...
...events--the Agassiz Cup celebration, say, or the Kirkland House dinner two years ago at which Smithies gave President Bok a long, pointed introduction, replete with references to "the days when the University was interested in education--before the present administration took office." ("These occasions can get very stolid if you don't liven 'em up a bit," Smithies explains now. "I think one ought to be mildly provocative--what do you think...
...people have gathered for dinner. Many of the women are dressed in long gowns. The men are in dinner jackets and patent-leather pumps. It is a merry, excited, optimistic crowd. In the center, sitting at a table on a round, raised platform is a rather penguinesque, stolid son of Norwegian immigrants, Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson. It is difficult to conjure up a truly merry Senator Jackson, but as he smiles and nods to well-wishers, he is obviously pleased this evening, happy in his work, which is running flat-out for the presidency...