Word: recursive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The No. 1 phrase now used in every economic argument is "administered prices." It crops up in union charges that business fails to cut prices in response to slackened demand, instead reduces volume and employment. It turns up in management charges that unions have set wages so high that wages...
Surprising Fact. So far, all but two of the patients treated have lost most of their pain. The exceptions: one with lung cancer, one with "phantom limb" pain after an arm amputation. Best results have been in cancers of the face and neck. The surgeons leave the electrodes in place...
Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions...
The Essene scrolls are closer in feeling and language to the Gospel of St. John than to any other part of the New Testament. And words that seem almost like a paraphrase of John's famous Prologue occur in the Rule of the Community: "And by His knowledge, everything...
Plenty of Nothing. Author Sagan's prose is as disciplined as her characters are not. Her style is spare, lucid and psychologically astute. Yet her novel is a petition in spiritual and emotional bankruptcy. The word "nothing" recurs with obsessive frequency in describing what the heroine thinks and feels...