Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companion, an Air Force psycholo gist named Sheldon Freud ("a very dis tant cousin of Sigmund - fifth or sixth"), answered promptly: "Sit down and we'll order coffee." While they sipped their coffee at Doney's, the first man checked the dial on a small instrument hooked to his belt. He was noting his temperature. There was a wire leading from the gauge down his trousers to a rectal thermometer...
...newspaper ad offered a 19-in. portable TV set for $8.98, and crowds of pushing shoppers showed up last week at Manhattan's Masters Inc. dis count store to claim the bargain. Trou ble was that the price before the typo graphical error read $88.98. When Masters' clerks refused to sell the TV sets for $8.98, the crowd threatened to get out of hand. Masters' President Jack Haizen made a quick decision: he had the store closed, ordered the sets sold for the price in the ad-though he was not legally obliged...
...forth this proposition," he said, "that as Presbyterians we cease to have children of our own and begin to con- stitute families by means of adopting the unwanted, the disinherited, the dis possessed and the rejected children, to whom the ways for knowing who they are are largely denied. I am simply proposing that Presbyterians do something that is within their reach. Surely sex is for pleasure as well as procreation...
Three threads connect the three dis asters. Each of the fatal flights originated from La Guardia Airport. All were approaching airports. And all three 727s crashed at night. Neither the Federal Aviation Agency, which alone has the authority to ground airplanes, nor the airlines, which have 195 of them in service, has detected any structural flaws in the 727, the most thoroughly tested airliner in U.S. history. Early analyses of the Cincinnati and Salt Lake crashes indicate possible pilot error; the Chicago disaster is still a mystery (the plane's flight recorder has not yet been recovered from Lake...
...ambiguous that it took the nation a week to fathom what the President's real feelings and intentions were. Convinced that one of John Kennedy's greatest mistakes as President was his bitter, demagogic con frontation with the steel industry, John son managed to show his strong dis approval of price rises without uttering a single word in public...