Word: nineteen
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...exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses exceeding 800 rads and were listed in "grave condition." Nineteen of them were chosen either for transplants of bone marrow from donors or for more experimental transplants of liver tissue from fetuses. At week's end eleven of the 35 had died, including six who had apparently undergone transplants...
Since then, the Crimson has not lost a single Ivy game--in nineteen trys...
...spring break meal plan program was implemented last year in response to students' requests, said Richard Monville, manager of College Dining Halls. Two hundred and nineteen students last year signed up for meals, which were offered at Kirkland House, he said...
...mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test: he must kill his co-worker and confidant. Will he rebel? Or has his brain, like Winston's in Nineteen Eighty-Four, been washed and blow-dried? Suffice to say that only a computer could find the ending happy. Along the terror-ridden corridors of power, Walker, 57, offers an unusual amalgam of merriment and rage. His voice is occasionally too strident, possibly the result of many years of Humblepause...
...cautionary tale, Atwood's novel lacks the direct, chilling plausibility of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. It warns against too much: heedless sex, excessive morality, chemical and nuclear pollution. All of these may be worthwhile targets, but such a future seems more complicated than dramatic. But Offred's narrative is fascinating in a way that transcends tense and time: the record of an observant soul struggling against a harsh, mysterious world...