Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About an hour later, Haley discovered what he wanted. "Suddenly I found myself looking down: Tom Murray, Occupation?blacksmith,' and beneath him, 'Irene, M?for Mulatto,' and their children. The youngest was Elizabeth, age six. And that really grabbed me. That was Aunt Liz. I used to sit on her front porch and play with her long gray hair. The experience galvanized me. Grandma's words became real. It wasn't that I had not believed her. You just didn't not believe Grandma. But there was something about the fact that what Grandma had been talking about was right...
...Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Psychiatry, affirms in an essay on "The Search for Care" that if medical faculty do not convey the importance of primary care, it will be regarded as "trivial, boring and beneath the dignity of a professional physician." He also points out, however, that many of medicine's apparent shortcomings result from patients' expectations that emdicine will fill emotional needs once taken care of by more cohesive families and stronger religious faith. No simple policy decision can make families tight or churches popular. While doctors cannot be expected to replace these institutions, it would be wise...
...refined by Yugoslav Mathematician Milutin Milankovitch, for whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, the trio assembled an accurate record of the earth's climate dating back 450,000 years and correlated this information with data about the earth's orbit...
...Beneath the opening week's gaiety were barely submerged apprehensions and tensions. Reflecting the worry that Jimmy Carter may take Congress for granted, Speaker O'Neill warned that "common sense and the Constitution demand that Pennsylvania Avenue remain a two-way street." Liberal Democrats are already restive over Carter's apparent intention to place budget-balancing goals above the need for such programs as welfare reform and national health insurance. Many Democrats, too, favor a larger jobs program than they expect Carter to recommend. Neither do Republicans expect to sit idly by while Carter and congressional Democratic...
Some things, though, lie buried beneath the one-sidedness of the final score. Everyone knows, for instance, that Desaulniers is a freshman, a Canadian and the best squash player in the school...