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...with Hippocrates until this century. The disorders so often seen in the elderly and aging were dubbed "degenerative," or "the diseases of old age," with the emphasis on "of," as though they were inseparable. The very word senile, from a Latin root meaning simply "old," took on a derogatory hue, and a doddering oldster was redundantly tagged "a senile...
...this particular tense juncture of the Kremlin's hue and cry against Yugoslavia, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last week took off in King Farouk's old yacht for a long-scheduled reunion with Marshal Tito...
Since all available policemen have been assigned to ticketing duty, it would be unreasonable to suggest that lawmen stand guard over Weeks Bridge. But the installation of adequate lighting facilities there would either frighten away nefarious juveniles or at least expose their machinations to all. The hue and cry might then be raised...
...trial by jury). The status-of-forces agreements cover some 14,000 cases a year without bruising the U.S. sense of justice. They received dramatic confirmation last year in the case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, who killed a Japanese woman, was tried amid U.S. hue and hubbub in a Japanese court without a jury-and received the justice which was his unalienable right. In the status-of-forces agreements the U.S. thus respects the integrity of the laws of foreign countries without sacrifice to the basic principles...
...forces was done with tact and no ugly rolling of heads. Gratefully, new Defense Minister Jesús Maria Castro León called to pledge the armed forces' allegiance. Next evening Journalist Fabricio Ojeda, 29, founder of the civilian "patriotic junta." which welded Venezuelans of every political hue into an anti-Pérez Jiménez striking force, added his promise of loyalty...