Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during Christmas dinner, the time of the year when servants and masters sit down together. "You cut your baby up," shouts Ondine. "Made him bleed for you. For fun you did it... You crazy white freak." Margaret, it appears, used to stick pins in her infant son and burn him with cigarettes. This may suggest one reason why he never visits...
...drug closest to commercial production by gene-splicing techniques is insulin, the hormone that enables the body to burn sugar for energy. Last December a Derby, Kans., housewife, Sandy Athertone, 37, became the first diabetic to be injected with bacterially made insulin. It came from the pharmaceutical labs of Eli Lilly, which is spending $40 million to build plants in Indianapolis and outside Liverpool, England, to make human insulin by means of recombinant DNA. More recently other diabetics began receiving bacterial insulin in a test program in six U.S. cities. Lilly plans similar trials in Canada and Europe. Says...
Young professors who do not show a deep interest in scholarship tend to "burn out" as they get older, Bok said, adding that faculty are not hired merely to teach undergraduates, but also to teach graduate students and do research...
While her coach was doing a slow burn on deck, distance ace Maureen Gildea was busy setting the pool on fire in the 500-yd. freestyle. Gildea, who suffered a severe knee injury last summer and has spent most of the season recuperating from subsequent surgery, swam the best 500 freestyle of her Harvard career to win the consolation-finals-and-place ninth overall. Her time of 5:03, 98 was very close to Liz Kelly's University record...
...only 18. He was obviously drawn to Rimbaud as a fin-de-sicle spiv, and Silver plays him that way. Markay's Verlaine is the more richly shaded portrayal, ranging from voracious sensual appetite to a discernment of the gemlike flame with which Rimbaud's poetry would burn in posterity's eyes...