Word: arc
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...Arc de Triomphe, that proud tribute to French glories in war, has been showing signs of age. Unsettled by shifting foundations and vibrations from traffic, the 151-year-old structure is crumbling. An unsightly nylon net now hangs like ill-fitting panty hose from its ornately carved arches to catch chunks of falling stone...
Along with the police and ourselves, the detached observers on Bourbon Street that night were the officers and men of the visiting French Navy cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, in the Quarter on liberty. We passed them in order of rank: first groups and pairs of enlisted men, wearing bell bottoms and curiously feminine white blouses with deep square necks and blue piping, and berets with fluffy red pompoms. They looked lost. Next were the petty officers, slightly less visible in summer whites but still dead ringers for Parisian pharmacists. Finally and thrillingly came the Captain and his senior officers...
Retrovir is a palliative, not a cure, and frequently causes serious side effects. Nonetheless, demand is expected to be strong, not only from the nation's 14,000 AIDS patients but from an even larger number with ARC (AIDS- related complex). The question before them: How to pay? About 40% of AIDS patients are covered by Medicaid. In New York and California, Medicaid officials have already decided to reimburse the cost of Retrovir treatment, but other states may choose not to pay for the drug...
What she does not take into account is that sudden surge of delight in the middle of the night that every pregnant woman knows when the baby swivels, or the depression brought on by the puffiness in her face, or any of the temperamental swings that arc throughout the pregnancy. She does not take her dreams or reveries into account, her imagining what the baby will look like or grow up to be. Most acutely, she fails to anticipate that onrush of inexpressible satisfaction when the baby is laid across her breast in the delivery room. For all such moments...
Some scientists suggest that each arc might have been formed as a result of a huge explosion within a nearby galaxy. Expanding shock waves from this blast would have compressed surrounding gases, clumping molecules together and setting off the process by which stars form. But that process should produce bubbles -- that is, voids surrounded by a spherical "skin" of stars. These arcs are virtually two-dimensional strands of stars. Besides, astronomers have not detected enough gas in the area to have formed structures as large as the arcs...