Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could venture out with his paintbrushes and easel, Britain's retired Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating. But he pleased the management enormously by quaffing the house champagne instead of the supply shipped...
...crippling. Polio virus is unusual in that there are three main types. All can cause paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength -in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles...
...sixth, but I actually have only four." When a newsman asked about Krider's claim of 51% of Ward proxies, Wolfson scoffed, "Krider knew he was telling nothing but a big fat lie." Yet Wolfson started conditioning his followers for possible defeat by hauling out a wait-till-next-year
Behind Volpe, at six and five in the "engine room," are Bruce Dixon and Dick Weatherhead, two of the strongest and heaviest men on the squad. But Dickson didn't start rowing till last season, while Weatherhead is a convert from Harvey Love's heavies. Wilde also has another newcomer in Jack Henshaw...
Tufts took the lead in the third on a walk, a stolen base and a single to right. McGrath held the Crimson in check till the fifth inning. His effectiveness was evident from the fact that his first baseman made only four putouts; the varsity was either popping up or striking...