Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...trying without success to get other democratic parties to join with his own Republican Socialist Union Party in a coalition government to stave off economic disaster. Just before the state-of-siege order, a rumor went around that a group of army officers had given Urriolagoitia 24 hours to form a "government of national unity...
...called in Dr. Albert E. Heustis, Michigan's Health Commissioner. Dr. Heustis and his staff sent to Scotland and Denmark for samples of a peculiarly virulent strain, previously reported only from Europe and catalogued by Danish experts as O-111, of the normally harmless coliform bacteria. An identical form was found in the bowels of 90% of Port Huron's infected babies...
...Calumet's campaign to make Citation the first "million-dollar horse" in history ($867,750 so far), his $2,600 share of the purse was hardly worth picking up. But Citation was back in form again: and that was racing news. Trainer Jones bustled down to the winner's circle to meet his horse as he jogged back, his bay hide splotched with mud and lather. Jimmy crouched, stared anxiously at the foreleg that had long kept Citation idle, and announced with relief: "He's sound . . . When he tells me-as he did a couple of days...
Unlike its predecessors, the new bill is not punitive, merely investigatory. But it provides for a commission to make "recommendations for legislation" which would presumably contain some form of punishment for teachers and institutions that did not comply with the new laws. President Conant sees the incipient danger of such investigation when he asserts it is "likely to produce more damage than good...
...call another "ballet," a lunatic romp called "L'Oeuf a la Coque." In this explosive and completely delightful work the dancers do handsprings, cartwheels, splits, and double splits--as well as a few bumps and grinds. All this happens when three leggy girls arrive in Hell in the form of chickens. They are danced into ovens by friends dressed as chefs, but soon emerge and proceed to seduce their would-be tormentors. The fiends don't have much of a chance...