Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gray puts his lead patients on a diet low in calcium, high in phosphorus. They avoid milk, most important source of calcium, and eat quantities of phosphorous-rich eggs, whole wheat bread, lamp chops, liver, green peas, pineapple juice, baked potatoes, halibut. The deleading must not go on too rapidly, said Dr. Gray, otherwise the lead may be disastrously shifted into the central nervous system...
...Sadlier, over across the Downs, kept bloodhounds. Mrs. Sadlier is the wife of Author-Publisher Michael Sadlier (Constable & Co.) whose writings range from a commentary and bibliography of Anthony Trollope to a monograph on the history of publishers' bindings. He changed his name from Sadler to Sadlier to avoid confusion with his equally distinguished father, Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, Master of University College, Oxford...
...very simplicity of style is what gives this story its force. The tale itself consists of not unfamiliar elements: a life guided by a desperate need for food and an equally desperate desire to avoid the notice of the OGPU, then months in filthy prisons, finally escape through northern Russia into Finland. All this has been told before by other exiles, but here it is set forth with a stark simplicity that strikes home like a javelin...
...morning last week Captain Hamer, who had been following Barrow from hideout to hideout, received a tip that Parker and Barrow would soon pass down a road near Arcadia, La. He and his five companions went there, lay in ambush, all on one side of the road to avoid a crossfire. One of the Texas deputies sighted a car speeding toward them at 85 m.p.h. It slowed down to pass a truck. The officers shouted an order to halt. Barrow reached for a gun. The officers fired. The car careened into an embankment. The fusillade continued: 167 shots...
...heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play safe Captain Binks ordered the helmsmen to veer ten degrees farther to port. When the lightship was amazingly sighted dead ahead through the fog it was too late to avoid collision...