Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancient China, an occasional penalty was "death by the thousand cuts," the slow slicing away of bits of the body. A 19th century French traveler described an excruciating method in India during the rule of the rajahs: "The culprit, bound hand and foot, is fastened by a long cord, passed round his waist, to the elephant's hind leg. The latter is urged into a rapid trot through the streets of the city, and every step gives the cord a violent jerk, which makes the body of the condemned wretch bound on the pavement . . . Then his head is placed...
...energy firms remain confident that the lines will pay off, despite dropping oil prices, which now average about $30 per bbl. from Texas fields. The profit outlook is enhanced by provisions in the windfall profits legislation that include a 30% tax rate on oil recovered through the new method, compared with 70% on most oil discovered before...
...that King's philosophy of non-violence was so persuasive for Blacks and whites. When faced with the new militancy among Blacks around 1963, especially among Birmingham. Alabama demonstrators, King tried to argue this new mood should not lead to violence. It was precisely in Birmingham that King's method of non-violent action was judged by Malcolm X and others to have failed. In Birmingham, King mounted a frontal attack upon the segregation and oppression of Blacks in Alabama. There, before the unbelieving eyes of millions of television viewers, and in the front pages of newspapers, he "exposed...
...Jean is frumpy, asocial, infertile and separated from her husband. Rita is chic, impregnable as a rabbit, and antiseptically fastidious, except when it comes to stealing another woman's husband. Jean has tended the senile, incontinent mother for desolatingly lonely months; Rita has used the Ma Bell commercial method of reaching and touching by phone. Waves of passion rise between the two sisters like water spuming against a coastal reef, then subside in daughterly grief before the great silence: death. Suzanne Bertish's Jean is subcutaneously sensitive, and we feel the sand beneath her skin, the abrasion...
...walk around for three or four days after conventional surgery." Another advantage: nephroscopy patients can return to their jobs in about a week; surgical patients require ten days of costly hospitalization and up to eight weeks of convalescence. "There really is no trauma to the system with this method," says Dr. Joseph Segura of the Mayo Clinic, which pioneered the technique...