Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...string of sounds that are sometimes shrill, sometimes whining, sometimes rasping, like the sound of a cello bow scratching an unwilling string, but most often pitched in a vibrant falsetto of unworldly intensity. It is not the sort of voice that one instantly enjoys. It most definitely has to grow on the listener...
...hold the restless country together -at least until the promised free elections next May. A strong man would find the task difficult. Cut off from much of its normal hemisphere trade and the normal bonus on U.S. sugar-quota sales, the economy is in near collapse. Politically, the tensions grow more dangerous each week as the long-throttled opposition rises to take advantage of the new "democratization" of Balaguer violently resisted by the dead dictator's henchmen. Of little help is Ramfis Trujillo Jr., who commands the military and professes support of the new look, but holds the reins...
Perhaps in Bender's time and mine we spent too much on financial aid; perhaps we spent too little. Perhaps the President and I let the budget of the central Faculty grow too fast--or perhaps we were too cautious. But the standards used by Mr. Jencks simply do not bear upon these questions. McGeorge Bundy...
First at London's St. Thomas's Hospital, and lately at Columbia-Presbyterian, plain oxygen has proved to be a useful ally toward this goal. Cells are more easily destroyed if they have a large supply of oxygen, but tumor cells are frequently oxygen-starved; they grow so rapidly that they outstrip their blood supply. Radiotherapists speculated that they might make up the deficiency by putting the patient in a chamber where he could breathe oxygen at a pressure four times that of the atmosphere. A high concentration of oxygen could then be carried in the bloodstream...
...that can be argued for Lehigh only because Harvard lost six out of its seven fumbles and got sloppy when ahead. As Yovicsin said, "We did a lot of things, but we didn't do the thing we had to do--win." And as the memories of the game grow older, all that is important is the final score...