Word: ara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Notre Dame Coach Ara Parseghian were a pro football scout, he might well select Running Back Anthony Davis of Southern California as the first pick in the N.F.L. draft. Many fans would agree. Davis, after all, not only humiliated Notre Dame recently with four touchdowns, including a 102-yd. kickoff return, but also eclipsed O.J. Simpson's career rushing record at U.S.C. Moreover, he was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy (the prize went last week to Ohio State Running Back Archie Griffin, a junior). Those who hunt pro talent for a living though, say that Randy White...
...caught in the net was Sukar Narain Bakhia, 37, a 200-lb. illiterate who signs his documents with a thumbprint. He ruled the little town of Daman (formerly Portuguese Damao) south of Bombay like a personal fiefdom. By day Daman was just another sleepy seaside village with the blue Ara bian Sea lapping at its golden beaches...
...Richard Avedon's spartanly white studio on the East Side of Manhattan, that presence is quite evident. Hutton is the calm center of the storm of activity swirling around her. As she lounges on a sofa in her slinky red-sequined snakeskin dress. Hairdresser Ara Gallant deftly recombs her honey-blonde hair for the umpteenth time...
...Press reporter in Beirut and Cairo and wrote a book called Nasser of Egypt: The Search for Dignity, which was published in 1959. Wynn joined TIME in 1962 and has intermittently covered the Middle East ever since. "I find in this younger generation," he says, "a new type of Ara-more sophisticated in political views, but still suffering from the same frustrations and dreaming the same dreams as their uncles and fathers of 28 years before...
...disease shown to be preventable by vaccination, but doctors are still searching for an effective way of treating it when it does erupt-usually among the unvaccinated. A team of Bangladesh and Canadian physicians believe that they have now found a way. They report in Lancet that cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), a drug known to check the multiplication of several viruses that have DNA cores, may be potent against variola, the virus of smallpox. During the April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries with minimal scarring...