Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then a boy ran down the town's main street knocking on doors and screaming: "The lava is coming, the lava is coming! He was wrong- the long-dormant volcano had not erupted-but the neighbors who heeded Ms warning were wise. Within minutes, an 8-ft-high wave of water, mud, boulders and uprooted trees all but destroyed Montebello...
Following along process which angered some and put to sleep more, Harvard's new Undergraduate Council is set to get off the ground this fall, with proponents hoping that the funded, centralized structure will resurrect interest in student government which for many years has been dormant...
...usually thinks of sexual obsession as an undetected virus of the soul, a bug caught some time in the formative years but remaining dormant until some temporary weakness of the mind or spirit permits it to break loose. Surely such a classic pathology lies behind the unexpected passion that afflicts the otherwise kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged...
...story on the herpes epidemic not only reports public hysteria but participates in promoting it. One simple, helpful fact, vital to prevention, is that herpes is almost exclusively transmitted during its active phase. Herpes victims do not have to withdraw emotionally or sexually during the dormant phase, which is most of the time...
...elusive nature of information about herpes causes much of the frustration among its sufferers. One major perplexity is why herpes recurs, sometimes after lying dormant for months or even years. "This thing seems to have a mind of its own," says Debera Edwards of Washington, D.C., who works in a law office. She contracted herpes in 1978 and complains about its vexing propensity for popping up at inopportune moments: "It knows exactly when you're going away, or when you're really looking forward to something." Says Dr. David Baker, a New York obstetrician: "Stress can reactivate the illness...