Word: contagions
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...food. The innovators are on the march, however. The Milan-based magazine Italian Wines & Spirits has reported, with some hyperbole, that they "are gradually transforming the laws and principles of the nation's great culinary tradition ... The germs of the nuova cucina spread at the rate of a contagion...
...omitted by both Time and Newsweek in recent features on El Salvador. Congress has complained not about the unethically of starting another Vietnam, but about the high cost and "lack of tangible effects." With the early-1960's style of mawkishness comes the same hackneyed talk of "Marxist-Leninist contagion...
...book, Zorn, 32, obviously failing in energy and spirit,' takes the advice of Job's comforter: to curse heaven and die. The Almighty is an organism, he concludes, in which the sufferer is only a cell gone wrong. The creator, he declares, cannot escape his contagion: "I am the carcinoma...
...from union statutes a key phrase recognizing the Communist Party's "leading role" in national affairs. But then such expunging hardly seemed necessary. The convention had already challenged the party's monopoly of economic control and political power. Moreover, the meeting had raised the specter of "counterrevolutionary" contagion in the Soviet bloc, which Moscow and its allies have feared since Poland's labor rebellion first began to acquire cohesion...
...school actively recruits low-income students and gives out more than $1 million a year in scholarships. Exeter, says Admissions Director John Herney, is looking for brains plus something more. It turns down a number of applicants with high scores. "We are looking for kids who have a certain contagion to their excitement about learning." During a word association test one applicant linked tumor with friends because "they both grow on you." Herney almost shouted, "Take that...