Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is a luxury cruise? Much of the food was too cold, and many of the rooms too hot. Three out of four swimming pools had no water, while 50 flooded cabins had far too much. All in all, the maiden voyage of the newly refurbished Queen Elizabeth 2 offered 1,300 transatlantic passengers more than a night to remember. For many, it was a five-day odyssey they hope to forget. Sniffed Detroit Lawyer Dennis Aaron: "It was certainly not what I expected on the Queen...
...beleaguered husband. But for three long days Lee Hart remained silent in the house in Colorado, as campaign officials relayed word that she was suffering from a sinus infection. Political insiders regarded that story with the same skepticism that Kremlinologists apply to news that the Soviet leader has a cold. But in this case the illness was genuine. Not only was the candidate's wife unable to fly, but her left eye was badly swollen. The eye was so inflamed that at one point she joked that she dare not appear in public in support of her husband because "then...
...Purdue University biologist who until recently was building models of viruses by laboriously fastening together hundreds of brass fittings taps away at a computer keyboard. When he is done, he has created on the screen an image of rhinovirus 14 (one of some 113 varieties responsible for the common cold) that can be turned and viewed in three dimensions. Rhinovirus 14 thus becomes the first animal virus of any kind to have its full portrait drawn...
...network operated? Will he reveal the identity of his highly placed friends? If he does, other questions are certain to arise. The upper echelons of the CIC knew what Barbie had done; how could they reward him for it? Even in the first frosts of the cold war, was it really necessary to call upon individuals like the Butcher of Lyons? Where was honor in all this? And memory...
...have had a bellyful of bland uncertainty. Besides, the feverish riddles of Ezekiel and the prophetic agonies of Job make better copy than the Tractatus of Spinoza. Johnson singles out the 17th century philosopher as the sort of non-Jewish Jew who sacrifices the soul of rationalism to cold logic. He quotes Soviet Writer Isaac Babel's self-mocking definition of a Jewish intellectual ("a man with spectacles on his nose and autumn in his heart") and brands Marx and Freud pseudo scientists...