Word: boils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of a tardy monsoon, India's No. 1 port city faced the worst crisis in its history. Usually the annual rains boil up out of the Arabian Sea in June, cross the Indian coastline around Bombay, then move drenchingly inland, reviving thirsty lands and building up water supplies for the coming year. This season, the monsoon arrived on schedule June 10th, but after a few teasing showers in eastern and northern India, the skies suddenly cleared and the sun reemerged, baking the earth and burning off the dwindling water in Bombay's four main reservoirs. By last...
...tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...
When he is being more realistic, Murphy admits to understanding that many Guildsmen are going to have to go. Powers, too, has warned his union that many of them will be out of work as a result of the merger. Eventually, negotiations will boil down to how much severance pay the dismissed employees will receive. Murphy insists that the ceiling of 60 weeks' pay for 30 years' employment must be raised. Whatever the final compromise, the publishers will have to pay a handsome price for dropping any sizable number of staffers. Last week the New York Publishers Association...
Johnson's replies to reporters' questions tend to boil down to a rehash of the Administration's pat reasons for American policy in Vietnam, occasional diatribes against some rumor reported by a newspaper, and a few straightforward answers to innocuous queries. For example on February 27, Johnson was asked about published reports concerning the replacement of Secretary of State Rusk by Ambassador Goldberg. The President answered testily that newspapers periodically carry on against Rusk; he concluded "I would not believe that the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune would be in the business of predicting of nominating...
Sickened by all this, Mahoney desperately reaches out to a new life. He studies till his eyeballs boil and wins a scholarship to the university in Galway. But the struggle to escape exhausts his will to live. Fearing achievement more than failure, he subsides again into despair, quits college and sinks into the working masses, possibly forever...