Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major race tracks across the nation, chalk-eaters (form players) were choking last weekend over a straight flush of longshots...
...straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...
...bill was milder-in 27 spots -than Taft-Hartley; Whitney wanted his boys to think that it was really worse. "If this vicious proposal should ever become law," he told his union in its weekly newspaper, "we shall be only one step from Adolf Hitler's form of government...
Communist Nozaka, riding out the storm raised by Shimoyama's murder, was happy last week with the quiet intensity of a zealot who feels his vision taking form. Said he: "This summer will see the first wave of the crisis in Japan...
...some wet weeds, were 200 tiny (¼-in. diameter) snails (Bullinus truncatus). The snails were heavily infested with larvae of the fluke Schistosoma haematobium, which burrows under the skin and travels through the bloodstream to nest in and around the bladder. The infestation causes Bilharziasis (a form of schistosomiasis), resulting in passage of blood in the urine. Half of Egypt's 19,000,000 people suffer from it; throughout Africa and Asia, an estimated 400 million people have related forms of schistosomiasis...