Word: wee
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...situation is reversed for those who contract another form of the disease called Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE)−a variation that is largely confined to horses but can also hit humans. Adults usually recover from a WEE infection, but in infants and children, it can produce high fever, convulsions and coma; those under one year of age who survive an infection are likely to have permanent brain damage. So far this year WEE has struck hundreds of horses and killed six of its 9 human victims in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota...
Died. Robert Cruickshank, 80, plucky Scottish-born Hall of Fame golfer and gallery favorite; in Delray Beach, Fla. Winner of 20 PGA tournaments from 1921-50, the "Wee Scot" played with an ebullience that once moved him to doff his cap, throw his club in the air and shout, "Thank you, God!" after a crucial shot bounced out of a brook and onto the green. The club, naturally, landed on his head...
...Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor from St. Vincent or its neighboring island Bequia (pronounced, with an unreproducible West Indian lilt, Beck-wee). His job is not to sail the boat, but to give advice, evaluate your skill, rate it for future charters, and briskly pull you out of trouble in emergencies-as when, on the third day out, I forgot to watch the course when setting trolls for barracuda and nearly...
Chaleff is a suite-mate of Don A. Nicholson '76 and Sam M. Wee '76, two students who have been involved with the Memphis, Tenn., dictionary-selling company's recruiting efforts at Harvard...
...which, Chaleff says, came as a rude shock to Wee and Nicholson, who had been told to keep the whole matter quiet...