Word: caning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theologians estimated that "the soul joined the body at the 40th day of pregnancy." Forty is a magical number. The biblical Flood lasted 40 days and 40 nights, Ali Baba had 40 thieves, and Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days. Suleiman died standing up, leaning on his cane. Nobody realized he was dead until 40 days later, when he finally fell...
According to Quigley, the chances for pregnancy are best when the eggs are retrieved during the three-to four-hour period when they are fully mature. At Bourn Hall, women remain on the premises, waiting for that moment to occur. Each morning, Steptoe, now 71 and walking with a cane, arrives on the ward to check their charts. The husband of one patient describes the scene: "Looking at a woman like an astonished owl, he'll say, 'Your estrogen is rising nicely.' The diffidence is his means of defense against desperate women. They think he can get them pregnant just...
...bumping behind them. A half-stride ahead on the outside at the 1600-meter mark and in tight quarters with Decker, Zola was knocked first abobble and then akimbo (see box). Decker, meanwhile, could not have been flipped so unexpectedly if someone in the infield had stuck out a cane. Budd's left leg had angled out so oddly that she could not have done it voluntarily, much less intentionally. Bleeding from a spike hole in her left ankle, where Decker's foot had hit her, cowering from the booing, Budd dropped back to seventh...
...setting is the fictitious country Cuyama, "a tract of land perched uneasily on the sloping shoulder of South America, a degree or two north of the Equator." Aubrey St. Pierre, whose once illustrious family grew wealthy with the aid of sugar-cane plantations and slave labor, harbors guilt and runs a bookstore; the Cuyamese citizens, whose culture he hopes to elevate, stay away in droves. Aubrey's wife Dina broods on her mixed Hindustani and Portuguese origins and roundly hates her native grounds: "Nothing worthwhile had ever been created on this sterile patch of earth perched on the edge...
...telephone, maintain large collections of public -domain pro grams. In addition, hundreds of individual computer enthusiasts and clubs have made free programs available on electronic bulletin boards that are reachable by telephone. Several books now tell computer owners where to find the freebies. The Computer Phone Book, by Mike Cane (New American Library; $9.95), lists the phone numbers of more than 400 bulletin boards and networks carrying programs for many brands of personal computers, including Apple, IBM, Tandy, Commodore and Atari. Free Software for the IBM PC, by Bertram Gader and Manuel Nodar (Warner Books; $8.95), shows readers...