Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combination of Renata Tebaldi's ample bosom and her tight costume on the over of Aida) to the aural (Marilyn Horne singing "Mon coeur" from saint-Saen's Samson and Delilah, Anna Moffo's delivery of the single word disvelto in Verdi's Rigoletto) and even the oral (in a discussion of opera as addictive behavior, he calls listening to an entire opera the equivalent of locking himself in the bathroom to eat a quart of ice cream) and the olfactory (the unmistakable smell of his parent's wood stereo cabinet...
...study will span seven years, with an actual trail period of four years. High risk participants will be injected with insulin while lower risk subjects will take the insulin orally. The insulin injection trial is now underway, and the oral insulin trial will start next year...
...most common form of contraception which students use is the condom, followed by the pill, Bowman says. The pill--a daily oral contraceptive made of cycles of cycles of hormones which prevents ovulation--is the number one prescribed form of birth control, Bowman says...
...There's a certain amount of being disconcerted when you find out that oral contraceptives are not like popping aspirin," says Faigel, who adds that reactions to the pill vary according to the individual...
...students. A generation or two ago, it demanded validation of America's cultural maturity. Today it demands diversity. The 1991 Heath anthology of American literature, widely used in colleges, begins with Indian chants and Spanish voyager poems, rather than Pilgrim ruminations. Next year's update adds more "Native American oral narratives." The Heath editors treat literature as of mainly anthropological value. The volume abounds in work by Asians, Hispanics and especially blacks and women -- there is more by Charlotte Perkins Gilman than by Hemingway -- and conspicuously stints Wasps and Jews...