Word: hiatus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the allegations of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) to the contrary, on this coming Monday morning there will be absolutely no Crime in the streets. But the hiatus is only for a day; on Tuesday, and afterward, in your heart you know we'll write...
Another serious condition that can be mistaken for simple heartburn is a hiatus hernia-a defect in the diaphragm where the gullet (esophagus) passes through, just above the stomach. This permits part of the stomach to poke upward into the chest cavity and spill digestive juices into the gullet. Pope Pius XII suffered from a hiatus hernia for a long time before it was correctly diagnosed and treated, and the condition is by no means rare...
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. During the last 17 months of his presidency, Woodrow Wilson was crippled mentally and physically by a stroke, but his wife hid his true condition. Reporter Smith re-creates the time and assesses the political effects of the long hiatus in the White House...
...years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved about his youthful ability to turn, as the Manchester Guardian's Eric Newton put it, "hard bronze into lambent flame." Last week the U.S. got its first good look in years at Sculptor Underwood...
...Bert and his self-conscious older brother Harry (with voices supplied by radio's Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott) fumbled engagingly through ads witty enough to keep chortling viewers out of the bathroom during program breaks. Last week Bert and Harry fans were chortling again. After a painful hiatus, during which Piel's advertising consisted largely of jarring jingles, the struggling Brooklyn brewery-which was bought early this month by South Bend's Drewry's Ltd. U.S.A.-has decided to bring the brothers back...