Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Sincere. Three years ago Laureano put up moderate Mariano Ospina Perez for president. Ospina won because of a Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover, heaped on fresh fuel. United behind middle-of-the-road Dario Echandia, and fed to the teeth by unsuppressed rural political violence (392 deaths in September according to the Liberals), they used their congressional majority to advance the election date six months to Nov. 27 in expectation of a quick...
...attack appeared first in the Oxford undergraduates' own weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...
...none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...
...mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...
...cases where the blood clots quickly, an anti-clotting agent to slow the process might be the answer. But Ochsner warned that such agents are "too dangerous." His suggestion: alpha tocopherol phosphate, "a normal antithrombin found within the blood [which] appears to represent a satisfactory substance to correct an antithrombin deficiency...