Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leprosy in Senegal, and many other Third World countries, wears a different face from the one you presented [May 10]. Gross mutilations are highly evident among the cases seen on the streets. These victims have scabs or open sores at the ends of their fingers, hands or feet. As the scabs fall off and the sores progress, there go a few more millimeters of flesh. The annual bill of $2 for treatment with dapsone is a substantial sum to the leper seeking alms to fill a prescription...
...grownup. I was a little shy at first, but David was nice, and he asked me if I ever did anything bad in the White House, and I told him about the time I carved my initials in my windowsill. So then he calls Mom right on the show!!! Gross, right? I was so embarrassed!!! He tells her about my dress (which she hasn't seen yet), and she tells him that she likes my white one back home. In front of everybody!!! Then he tells her about my initials on the windowsill. I could have croaked...
During the winter months of 1981 members of the then newly formed Harvard Tenants Union spent hundreds of hours compiling an energy usage survey of tenants in Harvard owned buildings. The survey finding based on responses from tenants in 124 apartments demonstrated a "gross form of mismanagement by Harvard Real Estate, according to HTU members Turk explained that Harvard could cut fuel costs simply by criminating waste, performing routine maintenance, and obtaining quantity discounts on fuel. These measures, Turk said, were likely to generate lower rents for Harvard tenants...
Even assuming the optimistic scenario and more consumer spending, the business pickup is not expected to be as strong as after other recessions. Said Eckstein: "It will be a limp recovery." Board mem bers expect the gross national product to increase 3.1% in 1983. The first year after the severe 1974-75 recession, the U.S. economy expanded...
...almost obsessive project, a "masterpiece" from the word go. Eakins did so many studies for it that Gross wished him dead, but they paid off. The head of Dr. Gross, thought and tension made flesh, is one of the supreme 19th century portraits, and the drama of contrast between the dense masses of black suits and gloomy tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed...