Word: coughings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This austere regime belongs to a 54-year-old American woman, one of the nuns in the Camaldolese Convent in the fashionable Aventine Hill section of Rome. Her name is Julia Crotta; to her sister nuns, who may now and then hear her cough or murmur but never see her, she is known as Sister Nazarena...
Each year thousands of misguided teenagers explore the fuzzy-edged world of the cheap kick. Over the years, they have tried the hopped-up delights of aspirin-and-Coke, cough syrup, Benzedrine inhalers and lighter-fluid fumes...
...Venetian fishermen, they echoed each other with subtle dynamic control. Director and basso Piero Cavalli led one texture smoothly into another. A Madrigale afettuoso, a bit too obvious in intent to touch the modern listener properly, followed fine contrapuntal fun on simple scale practices. In spite of a cough, soprano Liliana Rossi filled Sanders with a beautifully clear tone, while the rest of the sextet took the part of a lute...
...given $7.8 million so far, the university got more hefty aid from the Ford Foundation. Today, it has 82 buildings (17 new) in suburban Dahlem, 180 fulltime professors, top schools of law and Eastern European studies, an annual budget of $7,500,000. As their part, West Berlin taxpayers cough up 2½ times more per student than West Germans contribute to their own universities. Free University students (one-third girls) pay about $50 tuition per semester, and 30% of them have full scholarships. They are a happy lot, inclined toward U.S. jazz and blue jeans, and their main need...
...exobiota might do better on earth than native living creatures do. Says Lederberg: "We know that whenever two ecological systems are thrown together, the situation becomes unstable." For a homely recent example, he points to South Pacific islanders who were virtually exterminated in the 19th century by measles, whooping cough and other diseases relatively harmless to white...