Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 70, an energetic mountain climber, wood splitter, bicycle rider and whale hunter (to take their pulses), welcomed a snowstorm to help demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern...
...game against Exeter Saturday, defenseman Elmer Walls drove a vicious slap shot into the upper corner of the Exeter goal, sending the contest into a sudden-death overtime period. Three minutes later, the Yardlings had won their fifth straight game, 3 to 2, on a goal by Ken Wood-worth...
...contrast, one suspects young Americans burden themselves with unnecessary responsibilities. A comparable and excellent Hollywood movie, Rebel Without a Cause, showed the grief of American youth by explaining how well-meaning but misinformed parents led their progeny to dangerous irresponsibility. Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood wanted to have good motives and fine ambitions, but their unhappy homes forced them to seek perverted thrills outside the home...
...burdens than with itself, and there is no attempt at a psychological explanation. It does a remarkable job of showing young people as human animals, and how they resolve the problem of co-existence in society. Getting along is the problem, not getting ahead. Unlike Jimmy Dean and Natalie Wood, they don't surrender; the Young and the Passionate simply slow down. Their responsibility, they realize, is in the end only to themselves, which idea, one can readily see, has probably not hit America...
...that Chou was so anxious to make friends that he would even give up his claim to the villages. But the rumor was promptly scotched by at least one knowing agriculturist. "Red China will never give up a claim to that area," he prophesied. "It produces the best coffin wood in the world...