Word: mals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course gets the tenderizing treatment. The rough is crewcut, sand traps are covered, pins are set in the fattest parts of the greens, and the course may be deliberately shortened. For the Doral Open in Miami, the Doral Country Club's "Blue Monster" was cut from its nor mal length of 7,002 yds. to 6,652 yds., prompting Nicklaus to grouse: "We're playing from the ladies' tees." (They were.) The theory is that low scores attract fans. "People don't pay three and four and five bucks to watch us hacking...
Hospitals were soon filled with patients suffering from acute respiratory diseases; deaths in the city mounted. The British Committee on Air Pollution finally estimated that during the five days that the smog smothered London, there were 4,000 more deaths than would have occurred under nor mal circumstances. During the next two months, there were another 8,000 excess deaths-most of them apparently caused by respiratory disease-that scientists suspected were a direct result of the killer smog...
...lenses that were impossible to make before. Zeiss has an f0.70 lens, 100 times faster than the human eye in daylight, for general photography, and a 110° wide-angle lens free of distortions. Schneider has a movie-projection lens that without alterations can handle nor mal and widescreen, Cinemascope and Todd-AO film...
...Random House concedes that Webster's Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language). Between parade and paradise, for example, the new dictionary omits such Webster's words-mostly medicalese-as para-dental, paradentitis, paraden-tium, paradentosis, parader-mal, paradesmose, paradiazine. Cerf argues that such entries are "words no one would ever use or has ever heard...
...most dramatic form of epilepsy, the grand mal that throws its victims to the ground in fits, drugs often offer dramatic relief. Strangely, it is a less violent form of the disorder, the so-called psychomotor type, for which drugs do least. For some 50% of psychomotor epileptics, or at least 160,000 Americans, surgery is the only recourse. But in many cases surgeons hesitate to cut out those parts of the brain in which electrical impulses are misfiring and causing all the trouble. For if they cut out too much tissue or cut in the wrong place, they...