Word: waif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work in progress was a $700,000, 65-bed wing for St. Anne's Maternity Hospital, a home for unwed mothers. The nun was Sister Winifred, 59, head of St. Anne's ever since she took charge in 1941. St. Anne's was an inauspicious waif itself in those days, consisting of one building, one 40-year-old cottage and exactly $39.39 in cash. Recalls Sister Winifred: "We couldn't even pay for the groceries." Now, the hospital operates on an annual budget of $107,000, maintains 42 beds, and has a volunteer staff...
Mayor Edward Arnold does the old frock-coat routine, the tabloids turn on the tear hydrants, the crowds rise in tribute at a World Series game while a soprano executes You Are the Bravest, a nightclub goes so far as to dedicate its floor show to the doomed waif...
Normal matter is organized into tight little worlds-atoms-with positive protons in their nuclei and negative electrons revolving around them. There is also a homeless waif, the positron (positive electron), that seems to have no place in this orderly scheme. Born in atomic catastrophes, it lives only until it hits a normal electron. Then the two "annihilate" one another, turning into gamma rays...
...Kyung Soo finally made it. Last week the tiny Korean war waif and his guardian, Chief Boatswain's Mate Vincent T. Paladino, arrived in the U.S. after being turned back once because Lee lacked a proper entry permit (TIME, Nov. 2). With a big assist from the Navy, the four-year-old Lee and Chief Paladino went back to Tokyo, got a valid visa and made the trans-Pacific flight once more. In Hawaii, before winging on to his new home, Lee was welcomed with a jar of kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage), which he ate, and a pair...
Listen & Learn. When he was eleven, Napoleon ran away to New Orleans, began working out his own way of playing the trumpet ("I was playing before Louis Armstrong got out of the Waif's Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...