Word: threedays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...experienced such sublime misery can stay away indefinitely, and last week Oldtimers Lauri and Mosconi chalked up again. It was a threeday, 1,000-point match, arranged to raise money for ailing Lauri's medical bills. A charitable New York poolroom lent a table, cut off the recorded music out of respect for the occasion, and crowded in 1,000 of the faithful. As Lauri, 69, made his runs, Mosconi wore a crushing expression of disdain. It upset Lauri's concentration so much that he committed an inexcusable scratch-missing the object ball entirely. "You play with this...
Grandma had the best name for the disease: "threeday measles."* The usual symptoms are a mild sore throat, a light rash, and a fever of not more than 102°. In children, some swelling of the lymph glands is common but is usually not severe. Only rarely does the virus of three-day measles lead to pneumonia or brain inflammation. But it may occasionally be fatal. Last week three children's deaths associated with the current epidemic had been reported from Chicago, and a Connecticut teen-ager had died of encephalitis. Less predictable and less understood is a complication...
AGRICULTURE The Year the FIsh Died Accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and a retinue of aides and specialists, President Eisenhower was off this week on his flying threeday, six-state inspection tour of drought-stricken areas beyond the Mississippi. What he would find was nicely summed up by Texas Rancher Stanley Walker, longtime (1928-35) city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in a byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds...
...announced the White House at week's end, President Eisenhower will begin a threeday, seven-stop flying tour through the worst-hit of the drought areas, the skeleton-dry southern Plains states, to assess for himself the extent of the damage. In Wichita, Kans., Ike plans to join a specially convened meeting of farm, business and local government representatives to discuss possible improvements in the Government's already extensive relief program. No matter how high the new totals may go, ultimate relief can come only from a source uncontrolled by man: the saving beneficence of drenching rain...
...armed intervention in Hungary and calling upon it to make "immediate arrangements" to withdraw its forces under U.N. supervision and permit "the re-establishment of the political independence of Hungary." threeday, on-the-spot survey of Hungarian refugee problems. Visiting the U.N., Nixon praised the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian and Middle East crises as a "fine diplomatic achievement." As for Hungarian relief, said he, the U.S. and the U.N. "may have to raise their sights." Within 48 hours...