Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rheumatic fever is hard to diagnose. Its symptoms-fever, aching joints ("growing pains"), nosebleeds, loss of appetite and weight, twitching resembling St. Vitus' dance-are easily confused with the symptoms of grippe and other ailments. Patients may recover from an attack without permanent damage, often without knowing they were...
Off the List? But Prospective Groom McCloy was well aware that, among knowing Washingtonians, young Mr. Collado's increasing fondness for having his own way was generally looked upon as one of the chief reasons why Publisher-Banker Eugene Meyer quit the presidency two months ago. With backing from...
Sea Wolf. In Victoria, Australia, a 15-foot shark, spotted swimming up & down outside the women's baths, was finally caught by a knowing zoologist, who used as bait a piece of pork carved in the shape of a-woman's leg.
Some of the lithographs-printed in series from the same stone-showed Picasso's method of starting realistically, then distilling and distorting his subjects into something horrendous (or sometimes absurdly simple). The first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate...
Like Sophocles' King Oedipus, who marries his own mother without knowing who she is, Cain's Jess Tyler bumps into his handsome daughter, Kady, without recognizing her, after 20 years' separation. When he does find out, he does his best to keep away from her.