Word: erecting
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Wilson's new patient, "Mrs. P.G.," as he later called her, said she was 52 years old, but her body told another story. "Her breasts were supple and firm, her carriage erect; she had good general muscle tone, no dryness of the mucous membranes and no visible genital atrophy. Above all," Wilson noted, "her skin was smooth and pliant as a girl's." When asked about menopause, she laughed and replied, "I assure you, Dr. Wilson, I have never yet missed a period. I'm so regular, astronomers could use me for timing the moon...
...fact, grandiosity was part of the job description for pharaohs. One of their primary duties was to make sure the gods were properly thanked for their continuing bounty and protection (and begged for them when they were in short supply). The accepted way to do that was to erect plenty of heroic structures-and then to adorn them with detailed records of the pharaoh's good and dutiful works. Says Kenneth Kitchen, professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and the author of an authoritative book on Ramesses II: "He was determined to do this better than anyone else...
...minutes for the little more than 100 pounds of explosives they've placed in the building to bring it down. There is no official word on what will be done with the site, although the General Services Administration has said it will abide with community wishes to erect a memorial there to the bombing victims...
Clearly Title IX was not intended to close down popular sports, and nothing is gained by using it for this purpose. We can acknowledge gender differences in norms of participation without using them to erect barriers of comparison. When the demands for male and female sports are considered equally and athletes have opportunities without regard to their sex, Title IX is being observed. We should continue to see it in this light without falling into the trap of creating equations that amount to quotas. True cases of discrimination continue to be recognizable. Title IX will sift them...
...Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds. Other legal groups focus on defending antiabortion activists, while the Rutherford Institute, established in 1982, concentrates on what founder John Whitehead calls "legitimate civil liberties cases," such as school prayer and home schooling...