Word: antisepticized
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Helen (Karen Allen) is in her early 20s and studying for a degree at Radcliffe under the spartan tutelage and omnipresent care of Annie (Jane Alexander), who is now 37. Into this antiseptic den of discipline walks a former Harvard instructor of English, 25-year-old John Macy (William Converse...
The setting seemed strangely antiseptic for an occasion so potentially fraught with drama. For its first national congress in more than two years, West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) had gathered in a cavernous 15,000-seat sports arena built for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As...
Not only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the...
The departure or arrival of a professor are not the only dramas camouflaged in the catalogue's antiseptic language. The calendar of the academic year, for example, says mysteriously for January 15: "Martin Luther King's Birthday, a holiday from academic exercises beginning at 1:00 p.m." This ludicrous half...
The entire cavity was also washed with an antiseptic solution. As one doctor bluntly put it: "He had a bellyful of blood and feces." Throughout the procedure, the emergency team monitored vital signs and administered life-sustaining fluids. The Pope was given six pints of blood, about three-fifths of...