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Word: contentively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ought to resign." Diefenbaker indicated that he would not call Parliament into session until September, so that noisy debates would not worsen the crisis. Opposition leaders might grumble, but they knew that the country was in no mood for more electioneering. Besides, at the moment other politicians were content to have Diefenbaker stuck with the crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Hard News | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...past, Castro has been content to denounce the opposition at mass rallies. But now, apparently realizing that words are not enough, he decided on a show of military force, and chose Cárdenas as the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Tanks in the Streets | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Many will be content if the party merely holds its own in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: High Spirits | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...carotid body, Dr. Nakayama's research indicated, is not only a junction point for many nerves (see diagram), but, by its responses to minute changes in the composition of the blood, it does much to regulate breathing. Most notably, an increase in the blood's carbon dioxide content sets off a carotid body reaction that can bring on a choking attack of asthma by causing fast, shallow breathing in lungs unable to handle the added load. To suppress these excessive reactions, Dr. Nakayama wondered, why not cut out one or both carotid bodies? After tests on animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery for Asthma | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...have passed a freshman scriptural exam in one of today's divinity schools. Thus, Nigg suggests, it is possible that a theological view that prevailed to become orthodoxy was not necessarily the correct one. "The history of heresy," Nigg writes, "has shown that Christianity is richer in content than its ecclesiastical embodiment; the Gospel holds potentialities which have not yet come to the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theology's Underground | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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