Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went into the ecology kick, "they figured people like me were worse than the lion or the bear." Lawrence adds with a bitter edge on his voice, "I had people from two agencies at a time following me around to see if I was doing right. I quit to get away from the harassment." Eventually he found work as a range detective with the Mojave County sheriffs office, and that led him to a job doing "crime reconstruction" at county headquarters in Kingman. His analyses of bloodstains and footprints at murder scenes and burglaries sent scores of killers and thieves...
...youngsters are assigned to groups ("Otters," "Chipmunks," "Sunfish") that meet each morning to plan the day's agenda. There, explains Leichtman, the kids "learn reciprocity, patience, negotiation, compromise." They also get peer support...
...smallest gain, say mastering the ability to sit still or participating in a sports activity, brings coupons. These may provide admission to showings of popular oldtime movie serials, or, if an entire cabin does well, a special dessert for everyone. As the summer progresses, it takes more coupons to get a prize. By contrast, misbehavior means a loss of coupons and privileges. One Wediko innovation is called Think City, whereby youngsters sign a "contract" accepting instruction in a particular subject...
Another approach would be to find a substance that breaks down the cocoon from the outside, allowing the immune cells to get at the tumor. A third tactic that Dvorak and his colleagues are planning to explore is the production of antibodies against the tumor's own chemicals...
...that she is sitting with her husband in a room in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu (a favorite stage setting), waiting for a tidal wave (which somehow acquires added metaphysical meaning from the fact that it never shows up) and trying to avoid the subject of whether to get a divorce...