Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great many of the charges; nine other South Africans, tried in a similar case last year, had been sentenced to death. But this time the government evidently decided that death sentences would have created super-martyrs who, from the grave, could have rallied South Africa's often dis jointed blacks and coloreds as well as many white liberals...
...most valuable twin-double ticket was finally claimed, not on the hour but nearly two days later, and not by the perennial underdog but by a platoon of upper-income New Jersey businessmen who arrived at the track in a long green Cadillac and left behind them the dis tinct impression of a gamble involving neither luck nor love of the game but of a cold-eyed investment by men who know their way around...
Away with an, in, un, dis-and especially indis...
...only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
White, still doubt that emotional stress by itself can actually cause heart dis ease, either directly, or indirectly through the nervous system. But he granted that if the heart is already damaged, emotional upsets may put an unbearable strain upon it. There is no question that emotional stress aggra vates high blood pressure and arterial damage, and may, as a result, become an indirect cause of death...