Word: defective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immigrants were even aware of it. Doctors stationed in the hall simply observed the newcomers as they walked by. In six seconds, physicians checked off 15 diseases. They placed chalk marks on the lapels of those who needed closer scrutiny: H for heart, L for limp, X for mental defect. With still evident embarrassment, Sophie recalls a distressing moment when a nurse "put her hand under my skirt. She was checking for I don't know what, but she did it to everyone." Then a doctor dipped a buttonhook into an antiseptic solution and used it to flip back...
Aided by two Eagle penalties, Harvard penetrated early, setting up pretty combinations which all seemed to end with sliding Cameron saves. On the first power play, Reed stickhandled through the B.C. defense, and fed to Palmer, who rifled a low bullet which Cameron managed to defect by Sue Yunick waiting for the rebound...
...examples of his own work, Cobb emphasizes his desire to make designs fit existing structural and social contexts. One of his designs, the John Hancock Insurance Company building, has been one of Boston's most controversial structures. Located in Copley Square, the Hancock tower in famous for the structural defect which resulted in huge planes of glass exploding off its facade exterior. Even before that catastrophe, citizens were outraged by the arrogance of a private corporation erecting a 60-story office building adjacent to the city's historic heart; the tower stands next to H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church...
...from a taxi at the gate of the U.S. embassy compound in Kabul one morning last week, and was met by an American official who took him inside. Then, speaking only Russian laced with a smattering of German, he managed to tell surprised embassy officers that he wanted to defect. It was the first such move by any of the estimated 85,000 Soviet military personnel who have occupied the country since last winter's invasion. Before long, the mysterious enlisted man had become the most prominent Soviet military defector since Lieut. Viktor Belenko flew...
Both the State Department and the Pentagon chose to play the issue down, partly because of lack of hard information. Although they believe that the soldier wants to defect to avoid punishment for insubordination, they are not certain. Strangely, no one on the 16-member staff of the Kabul embassy speaks either Russian or German and the would-be defector thus has not yet been fully interrogated. For their part, the Soviets insist that he is a common criminal escaping from military justice. They charge that he was lured into the compound...