Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murdered, he began thinking about Garry Davis, self-proclaimed citizen of the world, whose movement began to mushroom last year in Paris. Fabrégas kept saying to his passengers: "Some people go on hunger strikes to demonstrate their love of peace. We in the Garry Davis movement eat well and drink well and use the resulting strength to make propaganda...
Neat clusters of condiments ornament the tables in the quiet, tobacco-free dining room of South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh...
British reporters soon found that Scotland Yard was also investigating the disappearance of a wealthy retired official named Donald McSwan, his wife Amy and their son William, Dr. Archibald Henderson, well-to-do proprietor of a doll hospital, and his pretty young wife, Rose...
...school's airy halls, white tiled laboratories and neatly planted fields, the faculty of 35, some U.S.-trained, conduct 64 courses covering everything from general farming to veterinary medicine and postgraduate research in genetics. Regular students, currently numbering 277 (including six well-chaperoned girls), pay only 220 cruzeiros ($12.32) a year for tuition, twelve cruzeiros (65?) a day for food. The ministry of agriculture makes up the deficit ($356,840 last year...
Stake in the Future. Kilometer 47's most ardent booster, Cornell-trained Dr. Alvaro Fagundes, director of Brazil's agricultural research, is well aware that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing...