Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Street Fighters. In Lebanon, the original source of disagreement-the possibility that President Chamoun might change the constitution to win a second six-year term-was no longer an issue. But still the Moslem rebels in arms against him continued their sporadic resistance. Reportedly reinforced by fedayeen infiltrators from the Gaza Strip, rebel forces attacked a Beirut police station, looted it of arms and ammunition before army troops drove them out in one of the few real actions of the month-old crisis...
...hereditary defects that used to be rapidly eliminated by evolutionary selection are now being reproduced in our communities. In other words, we are allowing the accumulation of defective genes in the human stock by providing a type of medical care that permits those suffering from hereditary disease to live longer and to have children. This policy may constitute a step toward racial suicide, however noble it may appear in the light of our religious convictions and present-day ethics...
Behind him, Tim Tam hung on to second. But Jockey Valenzuela was no longer punishing his mount. The lame favorite finished under his own courage, and his jockey dismounted far down the track rather than make him carry weight a step more than necessary. Later, after an ambulance had helped him to his barn, X rays showed that Tim Tam had chipped a bone in his right foreleg. The Triple Crown was gone; his brief, bright career was probably over...
...perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death." There is the additional difficulty of specific references to fire. "To many it appears that for God to plunge the soul into a sea of fire [suggests] a vindictive...
...possible July price rise, and production may drop again when summer vacations start taking effect. Yet there was enough of a general pickup to convince many a steelman that he should fire up idle furnaces, rehire laid-off workers. While steel's 1958 recession has lasted for longer than the drop in 1949 (see chart), it shows a close similarity to the slide...