Word: goiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manila, Aquino hailed last week's arrest of Salas as a "commendable ( accomplishment on the part of our law-enforcement agencies." Salas, 38, was captured outside the Philippine General Hospital after receiving treatment for sinusitis and a goiter condition. He was being helped into a car by Josefina Cruz, his wife, and Jose Concepcion, his driver and bodyguard, when the police closed in to arrest the trio. Officials claim that Salas took part in a 1974 ambush in which five U.S. Navy officers were killed. The government last week charged him with rebellion, a crime punishable by death...
...traditional grayness of the Sistine frescoes. For Michelangelo was primarily a sculptor. He himself said so, especially when complaining that he had been forced to paint the Sistine, instead of getting on with the tomb for his tyrannous, charismatic patron, Pope Julius II. "I've grown a goiter at this drudgery," a poem of his on the matter begins, and finishes with the lines...
Evans, a transfer student from Columbia, ha plainly goiter plenty of kicks en route to establishing himself as the most unusual student government participant in recent years. Who else could say "I'd like to be a rating orator in the mold of a Martin Luther King or an Adolph Hitler?" And it is equally clear that his antics have caused a good deal of consternation among student government traditionalists, more accustomed to debating Robert's Rule of order than the merits of "King Trivia...