Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Five Pouilly-Fuissés. At the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, the academy members were taking longer than usual to make their annual selection. A waiter battled his way through the crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have decided nothing!" Someone said: "They are not going to award a prize this year, they are not..." A voice roared: "Passageway! Clear a space for the photographers!" The door of the inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest...
...ticklish subject of coffee production and prices; the inference was that the State Department no longer considered the controversial Gillette report on coffee-market manipulations (TIME, June 19) a hot issue. Instead, he bore down on world issues. Said he: "It may perhaps be charged that the" remarks I ... make are not wholly in accord with the traditional concepts of diplomatic conduct . . . The peoples of Latin America [must] realize and appreciate the magnitude of our effort and sacrifice in treasure and blood in the far-flung fields of the East-West conflict . . . While we are making these sacrifices to defend...
...person has to be unnormal to get into this kind of business," concluded Cinemactress Lauren ("The Look") Bacall. "In the first place, you have to be slightly demented to make a fool of yourself in front of ... a whole crew of people who don't care a bit about what you are doing . . . Also you have to be a little nuts to get up at 6 o'clock every morning to go to work...
Spider & Snake. By stimulating the adrenal glands during a crisis, the hormone injections serve to forestall most of the early complications (shock, pain, fever, infection, impairment of kidney function, loss of body fluids) which make burns most dangerous. As the cure progresses, the increased glandular activity helps still further by sustaining appetite and promoting new skin growth. Since burns heal in a relatively short time, the burn victim need not worry about the bad side effects (excessive hair growth, face swelling, skin streaking, etc.) that often follow long-sustained dosages of the drug...
...blizzard to help a young mother give birth to triplets. All were forceps deliveries. Midway through the business the young father, who was helping out as anesthetist, fainted dead away. Dr. Luce left him on the floor and carried on alone. A year later he was going sleepless to make 40 calls a day by foot and by buggy in an effort to halt a milk-borne epidemic that felled almost a fifth of his town...