Word: charitã
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Every year, at least 200,000 Americans with chronic lower back pain turn to spinal-fusion surgery for relief. The Food and Drug Administration has approved an alternative called the Charit??. It's an artificial disk--high- density plastic sandwiched between metal plates--designed to replace the natural fluid-filled disks of the lower spine when they are damaged by degenerative disk disease. Doctors hope the Charit??, which has been used in Europe since 1987, will allow patients more freedom of movement than the spinal-fusion procedure...
...worse than usual. Later on, perhaps, they might have to fight day and night against the waters as they had fought against them before. But the danger was still far to the north. That, without even fighting, they should abandon their homes, gather in refugee camps, become objects of charit??? well, a fine man, a great man was "M'sieu Jean," but just a little bit an outsider, hardly quite able to realize how very many seasons of high water they had seen come...
Over night, the trial became a cause celebre. Newspapers devoted many long columns of what they almost unanimously called a crime de charit??. Newsboys ran madly along the boulevards bawling out last-minute news of the proceedings. The kiosks were besieged by excited crouds loudly demanding the latest edition of the Intransigeant or some other afternoon newspaper. In the hot cafés, where garcons scurried hither and thither with the large trays groaning under the weight of amer-picons, bocks and grogs americains, men discussed the trial in an undertone, sad, strained expressions on their faces...
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