Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning, the routine for the prisoners seems to have been highly organized. The day would start around 6:30 a.m., when their keepers would untie the prisoners, lead them under guard to the bathrooms, then provide what Montagne called "a substantial meal" of bread, butter and cheese. All except the smokers, who were allowed a few moments for cigarettes, would then be tied up again until the next meal. The precious extra moments of unrestricted movement caused a few nonsmokers to take up cigarettes for a while, though with mixed results. Said Smoker Montagne: "They coughed and everything, and finally...
...Edwardians, photography was still a minor art. Journalistic celebrity, except for actors and the high-society whores delicately known as "les grandes horizontals," was something to shun at all costs. It was the portrait that condensed fame and status, and to do so it needed to be painted by one of the lions of the medium, those astonishingly facile and brisk painters who plied their trade in the upper reaches of a society through which they moved on almost equal terms with their clients-Paul-César Helleu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Anders Zorn. In England and America...
Next a thin wire, covered with plastic except at its tip, is passed through the endoscope and positioned in the papilla, the nipple-like opening to the bile duct...
...amount of phosphorus dumped into them. A 1972 U.S.-Canadian agreement lowered the levels of phosphates that municipalities were allowed to dump into the water, and most towns along the shores and on rivers emptying into the lakes are well on their way toward meeting those requirements. The significant exception is the city of Detroit; it continues to dump three times the permissible levels into the Detroit River, which flows into the western end of Lake Erie. One of the largest sources of the harmful phosphates was common laundry detergent, but the levels have now been lowered...
...Even in Lake Erie we now expect DDT to disappear completely in a rather short time. In fact, it is now difficult to find it anywhere in the lake except in the sediment...