Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evita appeared to have reached a crisis in her long illness. Early last week word leaked out of the presidential residence in Olivos that she was being fed intravenously. Toward week's end she was reported slightly improved. But at the Avenida de Mayo headquarters of the sub-Secretary of Information, lights burned all night. Inside, a special watch of five reporters anxiously awaited news of any change in the First Lady's health...
...ship was nicknamed "S.S. Diaper." At dawn, one morning in 1940, off the coast of Portugal, a German U-boat surfaced and blinked out a terrifying message: "STOP SHIP. EASE TO SHIP. TORPEDO SHIP." Manning ordered his 1590 passengers to the lifeboats, Then, for ten tense minutes, as the sub repeatedly flashed "ABANDON SHIP," Manning stubbornly replied: "AMERICAN SHIP." Finally, in the agonizing quiet, the submarine signaled: "THOUGHT YOU WERE ANOTHER SHIP. PLEASE...
...investigate the possibilities expanding tutorial the Committee on Educational Policy appointed a 10-man faculty sub-committee headed by Dean Bender which then issued a 133-page report in the fall of 1950. This so-called Bender Report recommended decentralization of the Dean's Office appointing House Deans (name later changed to Senior Tutors), and bi-weekly group tutorial for all undergraduates...
...giving advice (especially to politicians) as Leontief himself. It is time to make a science of economics," he says. Economists have wasted too much time trying to advice like lawyers." He shuns Washington (he commuted bi-weekly from Boston during the war, when he was Chief of Russian Economic Sub-division of OSS), where "everyone is political." Their minds are trained to ask always, 'How to do it?' I am interested only to answer, How does it work?'" Nevertheless, he readily admits that the argument of his critics has some foundation: "No doubt, if you do want to control something...
Many of the officers and men Beach writes about aren't around to read Sub marine. It is unlikely that they'd have wanted much changed. Submarine Officer Beach gives them their...