Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion was a pack of inflammatory British lies. The Swedes, with a two-week-old guarantee from Hitler in their pocket, promptly blacked out their whole country for the first time, worriedly sifted rumors of German troop-shifts at nearby Kiel...
With this scheme, moreover, Sibelius is able to pack climaxes of Wagnerian scope into a symphony a half an hour long. Bruckner had great conceptions, but his ideas meander baldly around and get lost in the involvements of the sonata form. Wagner, in order to work out his climaxes fully, had to extend them endlessly. But Sibelius's method is the essence of compactness, entailing none of the delays, enforced hesitations, and bridge-passage gaps of standard symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly...
Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U. S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...
Cancer of Esophagus and Stomach. In the U. S., most cancer occurs in the digestive tract. Main cause: too much tobacco and alcohol, improper chewing, constant gulping of hot foods, irregular meals, tooth diseases. Early excision of stomach cancers brings excellent results, said Drs. Livingston and Pack, but it is almost impossible to detect such cancers while they are still small...
Despite delicate new surgical techniques, said Drs. Livingston and Pack, operations for advanced breast cancer are no more successful today than they were 20 years ago. In fact, the death rate has doubled...