Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time all this has happened, doctors point out, de Borse's cancer may recur, and even if it does not, the case is remarkable rather than unprecedented. All agree, however, that his dramatic recovery dated from the visit to Lourdes. And perhaps the strangest factor of all is de Borse's own remembrance of the event. "I don't think I had faith in the cure at Lourdes," he admits. "I was just called there. I felt...
...burning? It smells very funny." Most readers will agree, but Daddy is recalled to his responsibilities, the Labor Party and Mother. Novelist Murdoch's plain moral: better a dull fate than an absurd adventure. But the figure of Rain, that Audrey Hepburn sprite, has become an obsessively recur rent character in Iris Murdoch's work, suggesting that inside every female philosopher there is a pixy struggling to be let out to play...
...issues came into the open a week ago when the Faculty adopted Dean Elder's proposals to reduce course requirements in graduate study. The conflict will recur, for the feeling grows that Harvard's educational methods are unimaginative and old-fashioned, that some or even many students are retarded by the complex of exams, papers, grade-sheets, and course requirements...
...desks assigned to them, and waited for the clock to strike nine. For the next three hours they tackled questions for which none of them could have crammed. They matched pairs of words (POSSESS is to LOSE, as a) hesitate is to advance, b) cease is to recur, c) undertake is to perform, d) continue is to desist, e) produce is to supply); solved math problems and arranged given sentences into intelligible paragraphs ("a) Since his day it has undergone change, b) President James Monroe announced it in 1823. c) Its primary purpose, security for the Republic, has, however, remained...
...Columbia in his "Disease of the Heart." He notes that two thirds of White's surviving patients pursued fairly inactive lives with definite restrictions. It is an old medical axiom that "the most common complication of myocardial infarction is another myocardial infarction," and Fishberg estimates that such attacks "recur in about 30 percent of the cases, usually within two years of the first attack...