Word: organism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power to initiate amendments to the U.N. Charter-a power it will some day need to use if U.N. is to become, in truth and not merely in aspiration, the organ of One World...
...building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...doubtful whether Strauss ever expected Ariadne to be a box-office hit. A small-scaled "chamber opera" without a chorus, it uses an orchestra of only 37 instruments, one of them an organ. A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe. The three leading roles, all sopranos, are among the most difficult to sing in all opera...
From a cancer researcher's standpoint, the thyroid gland is an ideal organ to work on: it is easily reached with a test material-iodine-since it takes up nearly all the iodine fed to the body. It is also sensitive to atomic radiation. Researchers have found that radioactive iodine inhibits overactive thyroids; carefully measured amounts of it usually cure hyperthyroidism...
...only failed to produce the distinctive Elizabethan musical flavor captured by William Walton, for example, in the cinematic Henry V, but it was in addition so poorly adapted to the play that dozens of lines were lost under the blast of a trumpet or the wheeze of the organ...