Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the judges for the debate, which will take place at 4 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room, will be Deans Leighton and Duhig...
...sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...
Misery's Nurses. The face of UNRRA in the displaced persons camps of Upper Bavaria was a smiling, 36-year-old Bronx Negro, Ernest C. Grigg, veteran of city and federal social-service agencies. He had won the confidence of these strange latter-day slaves, some of whom still resisted moving into larger camp quarters, preferring to crowd together in their old, small barracks for protection against the nightmares Hitler had left them. Grigg and his aides were slowly preparing them for a return to the world...
...baby's heart exposed, he could see the great vessels rising from it like pipes from a furnace. He selected a medium-sized artery that normally carries blood to the head and arm, clamped it to prevent loss of blood, cut it through and tied off the useless upper end. The lower end he pulled downward and stitched into a hole he had made in the side of a pulmonary artery, thus bypassing the pulmonary artery's narrow entrance. While he was making the stitches, the left pulmonary artery had to be clamped for half an hour...
There were a couple of seagoing prep-school boys, Al, an amateur boxer whose short upper lip made Sculptor Slobodkin distrust him, and Mush, who was unpleasantly popeyed. There was Georgia Boy, a snake-hipped harmonica player and dancer, who used to talk nostalgically about his "mammy." And there was Joe, whose father was a Yorkshireman, whose mother was a French Tahitian and whose English was a splendid massacre. Joe once referred to the "United Steaks Conscience, Washington, Disease" which, translated, turned out to be the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. Sometimes he would dream about his abandoned South...