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...words for "vomit" and "muck." Like an indisposed pagan god, the port bottom belches huge bubbles of methane gas and alkaloid matter to the surface. In July, the hydrosulfide stench caused workers aboard a dredger to faint. Naked fishermen diving for abalone near by broke out in a mysterious rash attributed to the tainted water. As a result, Fuji's problems seized Japan's headlines...
...deeply hurt. The mass media have been under vicious attack recently, but even President Nixon and his golfing partner, Spiro Agnew, have not been so rash as to take issue with coverage on the sports page. "You gave too much attention to the front line last year, ignoring almost completely the halfbacks and fullbacks. I was very happy that in our most important game, the game against Hartwick, John Gordon, a halfback, scored the winning goal," Thomas said...
...rash of newly proposed Federal legislation is threatening to beat down the doors of university campuses across the country, but the response of college administrators-including those at Harvard-will depend on how far the lawmakers are willing to go, as well as on the character of the laws themselves...
...four. I spoke in favor of that legislation in May, and I will continue to support it strongly when the Faculty discusses the issue again this fall. I feel a responsibility, however, to emphasize to all undergraduate holders of Advanced Placement awards that they would be extremely rash to plan their degree programs on the assumption that his legislation will be passed or the belief that it had already been enacted...
Silent Phase. Untreated, syphilis goes through three principal phases. The early stages may be marked at first by visible sores, later by a rash, and are highly infectious for about a year unless treated. The next is the "silent phase," when the disease is relatively noninfectious and can be detected only by blood test. This may last several years, followed by the late stage, which can cause heart damage, blindness or general paralysis...