Word: dies
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...jury tampering trial, and a group of Philadelphia members brought legal action in 1964 to prevent the use of union funds in Hoffa's legal defense, a move that has so far succeeded. For the most part, though, opposition to Hoffa is divided and weak. Potential putsches die aborning for lack of courage or of a rival leader strong enough to attract wide support...
...race, from species to species. Americans waiting for a bus will automatically space themselves several feet apart; Arabs will cluster. In studies conducted on animals, Hall notes that a population crisis occurs when this sense of psychic space is invaded by overcrowding. The birth rate drops and animals die by the score-apparently from stress alone. Something equivalent, suggests Hall, could happen if modern society began to feel itself psychically overcrowded and overstressed...
Massive Damage. Post-mortems revealed that the lungs of the nonsmokers were entirely healthy. Damage to the smokers' lungs was massive. The lung tissue of the last two to die spontaneously was so completely destroyed that doctors had difficulty evaluating what had happened. In the others, reported Dr. Auerbach, the changes in the lungs were remarkably similar to the effects of emphysema in man. The experiment had not continued long enough to see whether cancer would develop...
...government take action against Paris Match. Prince Konstantin of Bavaria promised to bring the issue before the Bundestag, and he complained that a magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken resistance against the real causes for alarm...
...still have hopes of seeing a wholly satisfactory production of Twelfth Night before I die. Shakespeare had to go through the experience of writing the highly flawed Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It just before he was able to fashion Twelfth Night, the last of his pure comedies and the only one that arguably achieves perfection. Our Stratfordians have to date offered two highly flawed productions of this priceless play; perhaps they too will be able to approach perfection on the third...