Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brutal cycle, but Lowell always managed to emerge intact, writing away as if the poet and his demons were connected in some dark Dionysian manner. His second wife, the novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, describes him in 1958 at the time he completed Life Studies. After three months in an institution, "the papers piled up on the floor, the books on the bed, the bottles of milk on the windowsill, and the ashtray filled. He looked like one of the great photographs of Whitman...
...Mary Rose moldered for 437 years in the chilly waters of the Solent, as the nautical avenue between the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth is called. Time and tide did their work: after centuries of erosion, only the starboard half of the warship's timbers remained intact in their silt-laden grave. But those blackened beams were more than enough last week to provide yet another spectacle for royal eyes. Under the anxious gaze of Prince Charles and thousands of ordinary Britons, the remains of the Mary Rose emerged from the Solent in the embrace of a specially molded...
...edit its new edition of the Bible. At the beginning of this month, Reader's Digest published its condensed version, which excludes more than a quarter of a million words from the Holy Scriptures Among other things. Metzger cut half the Old Testament The best known passages remain intact--creation still takes a full week--but some repetitious portions were nixed. Metzger also trimmed passages he deemed too lengthy or too confusing...
...drug industry can gear up to produce new containers. Even then, as FDA Commissioner Hayes notes, none of the methods is foolproof. Packaging experts admit, for example, that a careful criminal with a razor blade and a bit of glue could remove and replace an aluminum seal seemingly intact...
...another maniac. Still, we are perfectly able to live with such uncertainties. Indeed, there seems a near infinite capacity to do so, to go doggedly about our business in the presence of unknowns, including the unexpected menace and the undiscovered killer, just as long as civilization remains intact. In a sense, the certainty of our uncertainty creates our most durable bonds...