Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 29 years "attending physician" to Congress, Dr. George Calver, 69, summed up the greatest heart-tiring hazards to his 531 charges: 1) constituents who ply their Congressman or Senator with heavy dinners, 2) Washington hostesses who stuff him with rich viands, 3) filibustering. Of the last hazard Dr. Calver said: "I have been known to make people stop speaking." His filibuster buster: he sends one of the orator's colleagues to deliver a casual warning: "Dr. Calver is watching you, and you're going...
Opening a collection of short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...
...great hazard of construction labor is its uncertainty, but Burke claimed that as a general rule the undergraduate could count on any road project costing over $250,000 or any building over $800,000 lasting at least ten weeks...
...Lived. Southern enthusiasts like to dream that, had Jackson lived, he and Lee might well have made up for the material deficiencies of the Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier...
...smoking of tobacco, particularly in the form of cigarettes, is an important health hazard," the seven experts conclude. "The evidence of a cause-effect relationship [with lung cancer] is adequate for considering the initiation of public-health measures." But the group suggests no such measures. Instead, it urges more research to find the cancer-causing substance in smoke, and a simultaneous effort to remove it even before it is chemically identified. Possible answers to the problem: selection of tobacco strains, extracting the offending substance from the leaves or filtering it out of the smoke. Most of today's filters...