Word: donner
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Rhee married Franziska Donner, an Austrian whom he had met while attending a League of Nations meeting in Geneva. Twenty years younger than Rhee, Franziska was attractive and chirrupy. She managed efficiently her impractical husband's finances. Said Rhee in 1941, "When I married a foreign lady, my family was very displeased, but they found out it was a perfect marriage." At parties, however, Rhee has been heard to tell Mrs. Rhee, "Now hush. You have talked enough...
Sources within the Cambridge City Council said yesterday that any attempt to enter Robert Donner's "Reducators" list--which names 68 faculty members as "Communists or communist sympathizers--into the city's official records will be defeated...
...Reducators" list was compiled two years ago by Robert Donner of Colorado Springs, Colorado, an ex-Yale student. The list received little publicity at the time, because it was feared that it might be libelous. Subsequent investigation found that the vagueness of its wording was adequate protection from legal action...
...best-known cases of U.S. cannibalism happened in the Donner Party of settlers from Illinois, who were marooned in the Sierra Nevada on their way to California in 1846. These people, say the authors, were "fairly ordinary folk, inexperienced in the ways of explorers but courageous and resourceful . . . [though] lacking effective leadership." Virtually all the groups into which the party split up practiced cannibalism. "Mr. and Mrs. Breen, left in ... camp with five children of their own and four others, turned to the unburied dead to save those who were still living ... At the main camp . . . only one adult remained...
...already the co-discoverer of uranium 233. one of the radioactive isotopes used in research which led to the atomic bomb. After leaving the Manhattan Project. Dr. Gofman went to medical school and in 1946 got his M.D. He is now an assistant professor of medical physics at Donner Laboratory in Berkeley, and senior member of the large team which has been probing the molecular make-up of the blood...