Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibly can be and I am hopeful that the war of nerves will cease and that everybody will get in the mood for world peace and then it will just take a short time to get everything worked out as it should be. Then the United Nations will function as it should and I hope that we will have generations of peace...
Politicking. With obvious relish he busied himself at party politicking. It was a week when he could watch three political plums safely deposited in the hands of three good friends. At a swearing-in ceremony, a function which he always hugely enjoys, he handed ex-Attorney General Tom Clark his commission as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ex-Democratic National Party Chairman Howard McGrath got his commission as Attorney General, and Bill Boyle Jr. got a gavel and the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee...
...Gypsum Co., of which Avery is also board chairman. As eleven senior officers and directors walked out of Montgomery Ward's in a year (TIME, May 31, 1948 et seg.), Avery liked to point to Keady to show that he could "get along with associates who function in their jobs...
...reader . . . may be perplexed and puzzled at my use of the comma: it is a new, special and poetic use to which I have put it. The commas appear in the poems functionally, and thus not for eccentricity; and they are there also poetically, that is to say, not in their prose function. These poems were conceived with commas, as 'comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement...
...Marinelli and his associates worked out a neat method of dealing with this difficulty. First they removed the patient's normal thyroid and with it the original cancer. This left the metastases which, they found, often consisted of cancer cells that retained faint remnants of the normal function of the thyroid. With the normal thyroid gone, the degenerate cells awoke and began to act like thyroids. Stimulated by the proper drugs, they began taking up iodine and making it into thyroid hormones. Then Dr. Marinelli gave radioactive iodine to the patient. The tumors, acting as pinchhitting thyroid glands, absorbed...