Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow down atherosclerosis will prevent almost as many strokes as coronary attacks. Meanwhile, neurologists are working with surgeons to see what can be done about narrowed arteries in the neck, where the surgeon can get at them. From 5% to 20% of strokes (doctors differ widely about the proportion) occur not in the brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch, or putting in a patch...
...Bible does not say when any of these events in the tradition occurred. But the excavations at Shochem provide a concrete background to the story with approximate dates. These are derived from such evidence as changes that occur in the styles of pottery as the digging goes deeper and deeper...
TIME'S choice of a Man of the Year seems, in retrospect, an obvious extension of our practice of singling out a man each week to put on our cover. But not until TIME was nearly five years old did it occur to the editors to proclaim a hero it described as "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt" as Man of the Year. In those vividly irreverent days, TIME, in the midst of much praise, noted Charles A. Lindbergh's large feet, and ruefully recorded: "Eleanor Glyn avers he lacks...
...Though its official traffic fatality rate (1,079 in 1961) is lower than that of either country. Reason: Belgian statistics fudge by including only instant deaths-those that occur at the actual scene of an accident...
...other potential advantages he cites: children returning home from school would no 'longer have to trek in the dark, and, most important, adults making the trip home after work would be saved the hazards of twilight driving. Throughout the state, as well as in Manhattan, more traffic accidents occur in the late afternoon and early evening commuting hours than at any other time of the day, and every year the total increases with the switch to standard time...