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...invitations to the party had warned: "Carriages at 8." Just before this appointed hour, Their Majesties retired. The limousines drove up and everyone left, bodyguards and all, in a faint cloud of gasoline fumes and ill will...
Patient E.G., 65, was dying of prostate cancer. The disease had spread to his bones and spine. He was paralyzed from the waist down. His legs were doubled up in a spasm and he was faint with pain. Two months ago the doctor began to give him daily injections. The patient was beyond noticing that he was getting a new medicine. But in three weeks he could move his legs. The pain slipped out of his body and he began to eat heartily. Last week, on shaky legs, he walked. Said a neurologist's report on the patient...
responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...
Bert Andrews, of the stanchly Republican New York Herald Tribune, calculated quickly. "Will that be after the election next year?" he asked. The President looked him straight in the eye. With a faint edge in his voice, he said yes, that will be after the election. He paused. You know, he added dryly, the presidential term does not expire until January...
...week's end, some newsmen had faint twinges of hangover conscience; had the story really been worth all that? But most reporters had agreed with the editorial blessing of the New York Times: "We regard it as a fine thing when young people in love get married. . . . There is only one story today and the wedding...