Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memory. Onetime killers like measles and chicken pox have been downgraded into childhood diseases capable of producing lasting immunities in their survivors. Inoculation and modern sanitation have all but eliminated smallpox. Cholera remains endemic only on the Indian subcontinent. But, McNeill concludes, "knowledge and organization alter but cannot cancel humanity's vulnerability to invasion by parasitic forms of life." Microbes have already shown that they are more flexible than man, and can move easily from animal hosts into humans. The swine flu virus seems to be making the jump today. No one can guess which microbe might massively cross...
...were so depressed and heartbroken after the game, that we did not have the energy to cancel the bands and the parties. In other words, we were forced, inspite of ourselves, to have a good time. If we were depressed, then those Harvards who stayed in Hanover did not mind sharing in our depravity in those baleful dens of debauchery (fraternity houses). In fact, the Harvards did a good job in beating us in this, our own perverse game...
...action committee would be the first to go, since larger firms lack the mobility. But now, due to a large-scale campaign against the amendment, red-flag reaction against the word "tax," and voter misinformation, this is no longer a threat. The 40 businessmen on the PAIIC committee can cancel their househunting trips to Connecticut and New Hampshire, at least until next election year...
...particularly tense moment came on Sunday, when a black minister confronted the church elders at Carter's congregation in Plains asking permission to attend services there. The elders decided to cancel the services...
...switching about from the play-within-a-play to the action which frames it and all the appeals for audience participation, we never really do start to care deeply about the characters in either Soap or The Wanton Wind. The night I went the audience voted almost unanimously to cancel the show...