Word: mortalized
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...nature." Neither does much of what goes into society's consumer goods. Far too often, as Physicians Stephen Barrett and Victor Herbert write in Vitamins & "Health " Foods: The Great American Hustle, the natural label is nothing but "a magic sales gimmick." The resulting confusion may not be a mortal danger, but it is hardly innocent. Unchecked, it is bound to make it harder for rising generations to maintain a clear notion of the truly natural to which mankind indeed remains tied. Not long ago, a Chiffon margarine commercial got a lot of mileage out of the line...
...often a splendid moral instrument, one of the most highly developed in the world. The internal anguish in Israel last week, with half the country calling for the resignation of Begin and Sharon, demonstrated that that conscience is obviously in good working order. Israel seemed to plunge abruptly into mortal fallibility, into the ambiguous mess in which most history occurs...
...network twice tried to share its risks and losses, first with 20th Century-Fox, then with its smaller rival BRAVO. But both deals fell through. The mortal blow, some industry insiders claim, was the announcement earlier this month by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a staunch advocate of highbrow programs, that he intended to retire next spring. By last week, CBS sources said, even Paley was troubled by the losses...
While Aikman witnessed the assault from Israeli lines, TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart discovered what it was like to be the target of concentrated firepower from land, sea and air. He was often less than 2½ miles away from Aikman, and constantly in mortal danger. Stewart's report...
Books everywhere are falling apart. Acids in the ink and the pulp devour the pages. The paper crumbles, powdered words in a few generations will blow away like dandelion fluff. Some computer-literate great-grandchild will hold the empty, mortal binding in his hands as if it were Yorick's skull...