Word: occur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Antidote. Cases of tetrodotoxin poisoning do not occur every day, but only too often the chopsticks drop from a victim's fingers. His breathing becomes difficult; his heart action falters...
...Some couples who go steady are extremely idealistic," says Mrs. Sherrill Godwin, a counselor at Griffith High School just outside Winston-Salem. "That is why early marriages occur if she should get pregnant-from the idealism." Yet rural life is changing rapidly. Down on the farm, one time-honored way of learning about sex, watching the animals, is disappearing. "Today the animals are artificially inseminated," observes Mrs. Joseph Rademacher of Peotone, 111. (pop. 3,300). mother of four sons, including teenagers Bob, 16, and Bill, 14. "So I felt I should answer their questions rather than have some outsider tell...
...concert reading" in which, with as little actual staging as possible, an attempt is made to focus attention on the themes and meanings imbedded in the script itself: exactly what Oedipus' words are at the climactic moment is not so important as the atmosphere in which they occur, which has brought them about. Personally, I think blood-red is appropriate. The "words," after all, which pin-point the climax of the play are, and I quote, "O! O!" As the play-wright knows, and the actor must understand, these words are the closest language can come to pure gesture...
Parents are again preparing for the occasion. It will occur this coming Sunday for the seventh straight year, and the children, with a special restlessness, will collect around the television set in much the way that their fathers do for the professional football championships. The children know the names and styles of the players they are going to see, for the program has become a modern institution and a red-letter event in the calendar of childhood. It is the Oz Bowl game, CBS's annual telecast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard...
ENEL has so far sustained itself mostly on past planning: nearly all of the 48 power stations under construction were started by private owners. By 1973, Italy's power needs are expected to double to 110 billion Kw-h., and a serious power shortage may occur even sooner unless the agency gets moving fast with more new projects. The cost of necessary expansion-plus the compensation payments-adds up to $1¼ billion a year. The agency, despite a slight increase in profits last year, can handle only about a third of that from its revenues...