Word: antee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only about 30% of U.S. deaths are followed by autopsies, and when postmortem findings are compared with ante-mortem diagnoses, glaring discrepancies often occur. Less than 50% of all cases of pulmonary embolism (in which a massive blood clot travels to the lungs) is correctly diagnosed before death. In 200...
Sir: The consorcio lottery method for financing cars [July 21] may be "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair," but its origins are in the Old World. Although such rotating credit associations are known widely in Asia, Africa, and now in Latin America and the West Indies, the most likely source...
Any move by Eshkol's government towards an acceptance of a U.N. resolution which would take the Israelis back to their status ante bellum would be greeted with a great deal of unpopularity -- something the ancient regime can ill afford at this point.
Sir: The reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible...
From the moment that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison dealt himself into the Kennedy assassination controversy last fall, he has forced up the ante with one bizarre theory after another. First he announced a plot involving New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw, ex-Airline Pilot David Ferrie and Lee Harvey...