Word: corded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this way, they cause a harmless infection. They do this in the digestive tract and render this part of the body an unsuitable seeding ground for future invasions of poliovirus. (The Salk vaccine triggers the production of antibodies, which circulate in the blood and protect the brain and spinal cord against paralysis, but does not sterilize...
...NACIONAL of Caracas: Semi-colonial peoples have never managed to emancipate themselves without counting on the rivalries be tween great powers. The U.S.S.R. oc cupies for us today the place England had when Simon Bolivar cut the um bilical cord that tied us to Spain. We would not be worthy if we did not take advantage of that reality...
...served enough coffee to keep Rip van Winkle awake and nervous till the end of time. Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when a group of actors came in, she fled to the basement, hid and wept-for Irene Dailey really considered herself an actress...
...latest Atlas ICBM to rise from Cape Canaveral flew, to the naked eye, like many a previous successful Atlas. But it was very different. For the first time no umbilical cord of guiding radio signals connected it with the ground. As soon as it left the pad, it was on its own, depending on the guidance of its built-in brain and senses. The test was a first-try marvel: the Atlas hit within two miles of a target 5,000 miles down range...
...more than 180 books, from The Cellular Slime Molds to The American Business Creed, and their interests are as diverse as their origins (from Lone Elm, Kans. to Berlin). They include Younger Poets Donald Hall and John Hollander, Sociologist William Foote Whyte (Street Corner Society), and World Federalist Founder Cord Meyer Jr. The two Pulitzer prizewinners: Poet Richard Wilbur (Poems, 1943-56) and Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (The Age of Jackson...