Word: westing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Phillip was born in the West Texas town of Kermit (pop. 7,000), doctors soon saw that nature had made a series of deadly mistakes. Milk could not reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel...
Allegretto. In West Hartlepool, England, Bandmaster Robert Davies paid his fine for speeding, explained: "I was humming one of Liszt's rhapsodies. During one of the quickening passages, I must have unconsciously pressed the accelerator, thereby increasing the tempo of the engine to the tempo of the music...
...Mines. Sam Huff knows the value of a dollar. He was born in 1934 in a West Virginia mining camp called Edna Gas that was caught tight in the squeeze of the Depression. Sam and his five brothers and sisters spent their early years in one of a row of identical five-room company houses. Sam's father worked as little as one day a week in the mines, often had to queue up for free flour. The specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal...
...Roof. With success, Tange found himself growing restless with the international modern style he had inherited from the West, increasingly probed into Japan's deep architectural past. There he found heavy beams and posts (necessary in an earthquake-plagued country), a love of structural expression, and at the most primitive level, ancient pit houses with thatched roofs that heavily emphasize weight and volume (as opposed to the elegantly simple floating structures with shoji screens familiar to most Westerners...
...WISDOM OF THE WEST (320 pp.)-Berfrand Russell-Doubleday...