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Word: coughings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death as the hidden bones lodge in their throats...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Portnoy's Complaint | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...longer a commercial success, Cambridge has begun to take us into its heart." Jeremy Leven, producer-director of The Light Company, managed a smile as he reviewed the political entertainment's first few tumultuous weeks last Saturday night. Leven--anything but the romantic-type artist, delighted to cough his life away in a cold-water flat-knew he still had a fight on his hands if he wished to save his current project. He knew that while financial failure might bring popular acclaim in this looking-glass city, it just doesn't pay the rent. And Wednesday night, Jeremy Leven...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Light Company Blacks Out | 2/15/1969 | See Source »

...waiting room, things are worse. People sneeze continually, blow their noses, and cough. One student said he counted 11 sneezes in one minute. He added that he called four girls at Wellesley, trying to get a date for Friday. "Two of them were in the infirmary, one was just out, and the last had just been turned away," he reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yellow Peril Threatens Students | 12/14/1968 | See Source »

...computer to produce the mathematical specifications for one molecule of ammonia and one of hydrochloric acid. The obedient computer was then told to move the two molecules together gradually until they combined to form ammonium chloride (commonly called sal ammoniac), a chemical found in such varied products as cough medicines and battery electrolytes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Computer Test Tubes | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...wife but all their eight children had telltale symptoms of hepatitis. A team of Air Force medics headed by Major Ralph D. Reynolds reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the virtually certain source was water leaking from the freeze balls. The water also carried whooping-cough germs, an amoeba and four species of bacteria, including at least three that cause dysentery. There was a strong suggestion of "fecal contamination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Imported Hepatitis | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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