Word: brien
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Harvard's next finisher was Heyburn, who was seventh. Dennis O'Brien of Princeton was eighth followed by three Harvard runners-Erik Roth. Shaw, and Howie-Foye...
Princeton did run off seven straight triumphs before the Penn meet, however, with Stafford and Downey splitting the victories between them. If Denny O'Brien and Tom Yunck the Tigers' third and fourth men, can somehow stay close to the leaders the meet could be closer than the Crimson expects...
...into spying for the Russians. The "drag ball" scene that opens the second act has been a titillating conversation piece ever since the play premiered in London in 1965. Murderous Angels probes the motives and characters of Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjold as seen by Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was himself in the Congo as head of U.N. operations in Katanga...
BILL HUNT gave his "Channelling" speech about once a month. He talked about Hershey and his newspaper women in the army he'd draft them. He gave that speech the night the Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision and sentenced David O'Brien to five years for burning his draft card. David was there and the speech cheered him up. Later, the judge whose decision was reversed decided that no Supreme Court was going to reverse his decision. He suspended the sentence...
...chemical process within cells: the metabolizing of fats (technically, "lipids"). As a result, excess fats accumulate in the brain cells and block normal activity. Earlier researchers suspected that the missing enzyme was hexosaminidase. Yet substantial amounts of hexosaminidase are found in Tay-Sachs victims. Neuroscientists John O'Brien and Shintaro Okada investigated hexosaminidase more intensively and discovered that it actually consisted of two enzymes, Hex-A and Hex-B. Both are present in normal tissue but, they found, only Hex-B occurs in the tissue of Tay-Sachs victims. So, they concluded, it is the absence...