Word: extant
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...John Adams, the young and vibrant adopted father of the Harvard Glee Club, is the real father of the Collegium Musicum, which he established in 1971. In the late 60's the Radcliffe Choral Society dissolved, leaving women without a chorus in which to sing, since the extant Glee Club has traditionally been all-male. This lack provoked a number of women to recruit some men--and form a splinter choral group which ultimately would serve two crucial functions: it would operate as a vehicle for women to exercise their vocal cords and as a medium by which some...
Missing: Genu (L.), an anatomical region commonly known as the knee; still extant figuratively in the kitchen, as in "housewife's _______," and in the movie house, as in Claire's _______; also still virile verbally in compounds like " _______ jerk " and " _______deep " and in relating measurement, as in "_______ -high to a grasshopper"; but generally not seen in the flesh since around 1970, when it was flaunted by trend-trippers from Carnaby Street to cannery...
...essays. Civilization has been bought at the cost of atavism; increasingly, man's only measure of himself is man. Yet Hoagland can examine such melancholy facts without shrillness or sentimentality. Instead, he serves as a patient guide to what remains. He writes movingly about the black bears still extant in Minnesota and the few red wolves at bay in southeast ern Texas. His description of the complexities and nuances of wolf society is enough to make dog owners marvel at the instincts buried in their pets...
...Limit. The last attempt to restrict awards was made by Charles de Gaulle, who abolished 17 government awards in 1963, leaving a mere 102 extant. At the same time, he established the National Order of Merit, known as "the poor man's Legion of Honor." No limit was placed on the number of these awards, and 90,000 have already been given to such people as a carpet-factory foreman, the head of off-track betting and a bicycle-race winner. The bonanza of medals is not restricted to Frenchmen. "During a French state visit to, say, Egypt," notes...
There was some comfort - cold or warm? - offered by the Pentagon, which issued a straight-faced statement last week that in its current files "no plans to invade Canada are extant...