Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book develops between two men who, by type and training, are least inclined to go at each other's throats: the president of a small Negro college and the white editor of a small liberal newspaper. Each thinks he is working for equality, but Editor Cal Thornton is on the board that approves President Ezekiel Rogers' annual budget. To the shame of both of them, the time comes when Editor Thornton makes clear that he and he alone is boss...
...Then Cal Bryant, Master of Ceremonies and representative of the National Red Cross, introduced a Miss Margaret Hutton. Miss Hutton, a member of the '49 Aquaparade, smiled broadly from the edge of the pool, adjusted her blue bathing suit in a few strategic spots, and slipped under the water. Her specialty is swimming without the feet. Holding her legs rigidly together, she made, respectively, like a porpoise, a shark, and a submarine. She got a good hand on the way to the dressing rooms. The fellow on my right explained that it was "good for the Aquacade...
...night she announced that she knew a medicine which would induce an abortion, smilingly gave Deliphene a handful of sleeping pills. When the pretty widow passed out, Martha directed Ray to do something about her. Ray got a .45-cal. pistol and shot her in the head. They dug a hole in the basement, dumped her in, and cemented up her grave. Deliphene's baby cried noisily and refused to be comforted. Two days later Martha took her into the basement too, and held her head in a tub of water until she died...
...process is one of the many which doctors only inadequately understand. This hiatus in medical learning became a pressing problem to three surgeons at the University of California Medical School; they had a patient whose swallowing mechanisms had been paralyzed by a gunshot wound. A .38-cal. bullet had hit the man near the nose, injuring some of the nerves that control the muscles of the throat. In Annals of Surgery, Drs. Howard C. Naff-ziger, Cooper Davis and H. Glenn Bell describe how they went about their problem...
...Louis is still mighty fit, and expects to keep fit for a long time. How long does he think he cal last? "Right until I get to the Pearly Gates, I hope." When he gets to those gates he is going to pay his respects, he say, to another famous trumpeter. Says Louis: "I'm gonna blow a kiss to Gabriel...