Word: embeddedness
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It was this power, embedded in 45 states' fair-trade laws, which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed last May on the ground that Congress had never intended to let Fair Traders have it. The court's decision set off a series of price-cuttings by big mass merchandisers...
But to many, the greased-steel concrete-embedded goalposts are the most outstanding features of the Bowl. They are also the most fought over. Every year, there have been attempts of mutilate the posts in some way. After the 1949 Harvard-Yale game an eager Harvard student climbed the goalpost...
One day last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner'...
Such sounds he reserves for the deliberately anticlimactic epilogue, when Joan's apparition, on a visit to earth, learns that she has at last been vindicated, and will in the end be canonized. "Now tell me," Joan asks amid the general rejoicing, "shall I . . . come back to you a...
Tonsils should never be removed just because they are large (no harm in that, and small, embedded ones may be worse), or because of frequent sore throats, says Dr. Lederer. The operation should be performed only if the tonsils have been "acutely and repeatedly" infected. Then it should be done...