Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civilization may have helped produce hay fever in ever larger quantities, but medical scientists still do not know the exact mechanism of hay fever, and, at best, the treatment they prescribe only alleviates symptoms. Antihistamines (which tend to dry up nasal passages) help give relief in 80% of cases, and steroids have proved to be useful. Allergists inject various kinds of pollens under the skins of their patients in order to desensitize them -a long and costly process that is only occasionally successful. Still under investigation is what the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases calls "one-shot immunization...
Secondly owner Tem Yawkey must trade for right-handed power--even if it means giving up Monbouquetts. With the strong right-hander from Medford, Yawkey could exact a big price from either the Yankees or the Twins...
...ball higher, and I hit through it instead of down at it. I always wanted to be able to hit my drives to the exact spot I had in mind. Now I'm coming closer...
Under attack, Toynbee merely revised some of his broader conclusions. Spengler was all but shot down in flames. The experts demonstrated that he knew almost nothing about Chinese culture, nothing at all about Mexican. His Time Chart, marking off the exact number of years spent by each culture in each Spenglerian phase of its doomed history, was riddled with errors of fact. His parallels between cultures were often forced. All this was true. If the West was declining, it was not doing so according to any rules or laws the book had demonstrated...
...book a year, and to the great satisfaction of her readers, each year it was the same book. The end papers usually showed a map of Barsetshire (Novelist Trollope's invented county), pointing out the locations of the great houses and offering, if one cared to know, an exact route from the village of Little Misfit to the town of Winter Overcotes. The title might be Enter Sir Robert, The Duke's Daughter or even Love Among the Ruins, but the contents never varied. There was always just enough plot to hold together a succession of chats...