Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ordinarily an infant's bones are so pliable that considerable force is required to break them, but in Allison's case, the tibia, the major bone of the lower leg, had snapped like a pretzel. When doctors examined the child, they found that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition, a leg bone may be so weak and unstable that it gives way almost as easily as a knee joint. Fully 50% of these children ultimately lose...
...rare confession of a Soviet mistake, the Soviet news agency TASS said the missile went off course after it was launched during an exercise in the Barents Sea, "and disappeared in a westerly direction." The apologetic tone contrasted sharply with the Soviet reaction following similar events. When, for example, a Soviet submarine was detected in shallow waters near a Swedish naval base in 1981, Moscow denied that Swedish waters had been violated, and it accused the Swedes of trying to create an anti-Soviet atmosphere. As for the misguided missile, as this week began it was still missing...
...most difficult set of cases involves the character of a donor. These are rare because the University gets much of its money from sources it knows, according to Reardon. In these cases the University must face questions about how the University should decide it will not accept a donation, and how or when the University should serutinize donors...
...result, the National Research Council may be right when it advises that the only thing we can do to adjust to the greenhouse effect is to adjust climate patterns. We are destroying the environmental are rare faster than over the imagined and here in Cambridge we have the dubious honor of among the first to feel the effects of that destruction...
...matter of public record that in this year of the wave, a pestilence of antsy people who stand for everything the stranger next to them stands for --meaning nothing in particular--the Wrigley customers had the rare grace to stay down in front. Regarding the wave, they agree with the ample broadcaster John Madden: "It is just another form of artificial turf." Concerning artificial turf, they concur with the retired philosopher Richie Allen: "If horses won't eat it, I don't want to play on it." Against these and most other modern innovations, nearly all of them television related...