Word: meridian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those doctors and medical technicians who practice acupuncture according to the old Chinese principles put forth in this book maintain that it works by correcting an imbalance of Yin, the female element, and Yang, the male element. These traditionalists say there is an invisible system of meridians in the body and along each meridian there is a series of acupuncture points--supposedly 300 in all--which, when pierced correctly, can cure an illness...
...cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth. Third, with such few exceptions, it is an aesthetic swamp. If some mischievous curator had been asked to as semble a study collection of rhetorical sham, displaying all the cliches of modern art at their meridian of pious triviality, he could hardly have done better...
...Meridian, Miss...
...under way, their lawyers worried about how their clients would be treated by a jury made up of a bunch of New Yorkers who had almost certainly been influenced by newspaper and television reports of perjury and influence peddling. So the defense requested that the trial be removed to Meridian, Miss. "There are fewer network shows, fewer newspapers there." But the Mitchell-Stans lawyers surely knew that the wall-to-wall publicity surrounding Watergate has reached into Meridian. Thus their faintly facetious gesture seemed really to be raising a deeper and more disturbing question: Can any of the Watergate defendants...
Then there was Tom Stuart, mayor of Meridian, Miss., coming around with another of those petitions of support for Nixon. This one was signed by 20,000 persons. Such documents seem to grow on trees down South. They surface at the White House in every time of tension...