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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...
...withdrawal of the two "prestige" colleges was not a serious blow to the prestige of NSA, Sharkey said. "Dis-affiliations are common in the Fall, when each school is faced with the NSA membership dues...
...swipe at Britain's unilateral dis-armers, he said: "The treaty was not achieved by agitators sitting down in the public highway, but by statesmen sitting around the conference table." And he offered some invigorating invective against the "immature nonsense of socialism," which is trying to turn Great Britain into Little England. In a fourth Conservative election victory, said Butler, his party "must reject and repudiate these absurd aberrations of the left-wing mind...