Word: hiatus
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Giuseppe himself was no noble-just a wily, smily commoner with an aristocrat's taste for the high life and an artist's delight in illusion. Inflamed by the success of an earlier minor effort, he determines to fill a hiatus in the historical records with a phony account of the foundations of feudalism in Sicily. He calls it The Council of Egypt. To the nobles he hints that their ancient rights may be demolished by his findings; all at once, gifts and invitations to dine pour in upon Giuseppe. To the King in Naples he insists that...
...across the country able to cradle Ho's Russian rocket launchers. Even the North Vietnamese air force took advantage of the free skies to give its pilots some hasty refresher work in the MIG fighters that Hanoi has largely refrained from using so far. Hanoi also used the hiatus to pump perhaps 6,000 fresh troops down the Ho Chi Minh trail into South Viet Nam and put thousands of laborers to work round the clock feverishly repairing previous bomb damage to roads, bridges, ferries and supply dumps...
Tory backbenchers, spoiling for a fight, wanted to press this advantage, but Sir Alec replied that Wilson deserved a chance to govern-and that a partisan time-out was in the nation's best interests. He used the hiatus to reorganize the Tories into fighting trim, resolved to do away with the traditional Tory way of choosing its leaders by the "customary processes"-that is, by informal agreement of the few ranking leaders. Home's successor will be chosen this week by democratic election in which all 303 Tory M.P.s will have equal votes...
...pointed out that schools segregated for any rea- contribute to "the enor- the educational hiatus now between Negro and white...
Doctors satisfied themselves that Lucy's hiccups were not a symptom of neurosis. Uremic poisoning, hiatus hernia and tumor irritation-all possible sources of chronic hiccups-were dismissed after examination. Next the diagnosticians studied Lucy's phrenic nerves, which control the spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm-in effect, the hiccup mechanism. X rays appeared to indicate irritability of the right phrenic nerve. Stopping that nerve from functioning seemed the only thing that might help...