Word: stub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Senate & House). New York's W. Sterling ("Stub") Cole, who in 1950 opposed the decision to go ahead with the hydrogen bomb, felt the country's defense program leaned too heavily on mass aerial bombardment. One of the hardest workers in Congress and an expert in the committee room, Cole is widely respected for his industry, fair-mindedness and good judgment. An internationalist, he was one of the early Eisenhower supporters...
...weekly drawing of the French National Lottery one day last month, the winning ticket was No. 301,207. To the holder of that stub went 13,000,000 tax-free francs ($37,143). The lucky man was a Roman Catholic priest, Sylvan Grandmougin, 52, Abbé of Attignéville...
...coughing raucously into his fist, saying: "Before I begin [cough-cough], I want to ask So & So [cough-cough] just what he has been smoking. It reminds me of my days back on the farm." This serves a double purpose: it gets a laugh, and all head-table smokers stub out their cigars...
...esophagus. In the first stage, a two-foot piece of his intestine was taken out and joined to the stomach; the free end of the intestine was led up toward the throat. In the second phase, a few days later, the free end was to be joined to the stub of esophagus that Robert was born with. But when a chest incision was made, the free end could not be found. Robert continued with his rubber tube...
...moviegoer enters Patrick's Lakewood Theater, he gets a stub and a chance to pick a winner by number from the list of entrants in three races. He keeps half the stub, leaves the other half with the management. During the evening's program, Patrick then runs old newsreels of three unidentified races (soon to be replaced by specially shot color films). Any patron who wins the three-horse parlay exchanges his half-stub for the evening's purse (usually...