Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gres-jord, which commemorates the great Gres-ford Colliery disaster of 1934 which killed 265 men. Then Sam Watson, chairman of the national Labor Party and of the Durham Miners, said simply: "You'd be more comfortable if you all sat down now." It was a homey assembly, like an outsize church social. The miners sat on the grass, handkerchiefs on their heads as protection against the hot sun. They listened attentively to the rasping voice of Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee; the silence was broken only when the miners murmured approval as he reminded them how much better...
Paris on a hot day, clad in a wool coat, shapeless slacks and something that looked like bedroom slippers, she seized a startled friend's hat too late to conceal her famous face from a prying lens...
...shelled off the mound before he could get a single man out. Stan the Man made it an informal Musial Day by hitting for the cycle-a single, double, triple and home run-with a base on balls for good measure. Final score, with help from other old Cards like Outfielder Enos
...Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women...
Through recent articles in several medical journals, and in interviews last week, Dr. Soresi expounded his pet theory: that the nervous system is like an involved electrical circuit, and that pain is felt only when there is a short circuit...