Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others where the wood was green and burned so slowly that the victim, as in the case of Bishop John Hooper, was still conscious: "He was black in the mouth, and his tongue swoln that he could not speak, his lips shrunk to the gums; and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, what time the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his finger ends." More hideous still was the burning of Perrotine Massey who, "being great with child, did fall on her side in the fire, where as the belly...
...United States has shown a steady decline from the 1970's to the late 1930's. Decreasing child mortality has played a major role. For example, figures reveal that the interval between births when a child lives is substantially greater than when the child dies at birth: breast nursing causes sterility for 11 months, while death at birth causes only two months of sterility...
...technology for peaceful pursuits. These range from helping in the attempt to put men on the moon to mining the riches of the sea, from operating Job Corps training centers to searching for membranes and motive power that would keep an artificial heart beating 20 years inside the human breast. The aerospace business is even bringing its massive brainpower-nearly half of the scientists and engineers employed by U.S. private industry-to bear in devising new ways to fight crime, reduce air pollution or control government red tape...
...resolutely old-shoe office, with bare green walls, a few wooden and leather-covered chairs reminiscent of his Harvard undergraduate days, and a rolltop desk. One visible vanity: a different pair of Ben Franklin spectacles with frames to match each day's fastidious London suit and breast-pocket handkerchief...
...seven: unusual bleeding or discharge; a lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere; a sore that does not heal; a change in bowel or bladder habits; hoarseness or a cough; indigestion or difficulty in swallowing; a change in a wart or mole...