Word: tickly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read about the programs and that was enough. So far as Drama Critic Richard Coe of the Washington Post and Times Herald is concerned, during the 1958-59 season the White House was one of the nation's worst show spots. Running down the bills, Critic Coe could tick off the Supreme Court dinner in December, when the President's guests heard a collection of local amateur harpists; the diplomatic corps dinners, which featured the boys' choir of Washington's Landon School; and the season's final musicale last week, when Speaker of the House...
...IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself. He put it on a paying basis, and at the same time demonstrated the raising of tick-resistant Santa Gertrudis cattle crossbred with African and local Venezuelan breeds. To spread the word, he set up two other experimental farms...
...addition they have a very serious injury problem. "We're hurting and badly," was the way their coach, Steve Sebo, put it yesterday afternoon; and to prove his point, he proceeded to tick off the names of eight of Penn's best 22 players who have not been able to practice at all this past week...
...National Foundation could tick off a substantial victory in its battle against polio. In the U.S. this year there have been 913 cases of polio reported, as against 1,979 at this time last year. But 438 of this year's cases have been specified as paralytic, only 317 nonparalytic (the rest are unspecified). Inexplicably, out of a hearteningly smaller total of cases, a higher proportion are paralytic: 58% as against 46%. Nobody knows the reason for this. Some 70 million Americans have now been vaccinated (50 million with three shots); since some do not respond to the vaccine...
...York's Carter Handicap. But Belmont's Handicapper Jimmy Kilroe reckoned that Wheatley Stable's dark bay Bold Ruler was just the colt to do it again. The Ruler carried the weight to the wire, 1½ lengths in front of Howell E. Jackson's Tick Tock...