Word: occured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football showdown is in the making but it won't take place tomorrow. The big event will occur Monday when the Winthrop House Puritans take on the powerful Bunnies of Leverett House...
...answer to the patient's perennial question, "Will I wake up?", is becoming more assuredly affirmative each year. The number of deaths directly caused by anesthesia is impossible to determine because all the patients are sick to begin with. Though the total number of deaths that occur under general anesthesia is still significant, it is steadily declining even with more-and more radical-operations, a fact that makes anesthesiologists justifiably proud...
Most of the familiar spy-story elements are there: an inexplicable but obviously treacherous plot against the national welfare of jolly old England, an equally enigmatic and treacherous villain, and a beautiful girl. All the events necessary for a good thriller occur with surprising regularity: a snappy, bone-crunching fight, an amusing seduction, and a sadistically satisfying torture...
...turn it on or off is to clap his hands twice, quickly and sharply. The claps trigger the switch-and presto! Or a dog whistle, provided with the $40 switch, can be blown twice. For Sonuswitch is trained to respond only to 14-kilocycle signals that occur twice in the space of half a second. A constant signal will not do it, and the company, which is primarily an acoustical research and development firm, claims that few stray sounds will accidentally trigger...
...interview earlier in the day, Sir Patrick declined to specify exactly what form these changes might take, or where they might occur...