Word: retreating
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...fair, the public-health authorities had begun works to improve the city's infrastructure. But their refusal to retreat from the miasma theory, and the extra piles of atmospheric data they commissioned to prop it up, cost thousands more lives. Snow's victory over the miasmatists wasn't conceded until years after his death in 1858. Some never relented, such as London's otherwise enlightened Health Board chief, Edwin Chadwick, who went to his grave still propounding that belief in 1890 - seven years after the German scientist Robert Koch definitively identified Vibrio cholerae...
...many malt whiskeys, but few are from a region so remote that the deer outnumber people 25 to 1 and the bank is open only once a week. The Hebridean island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland, is so isolated that George Orwell chose it as his retreat in order to write his novel 1984. For a price, whiskey aficionados can visit the island and distill their own casks of Jura, ready for bottling in 10 years' time. Or they can enjoy the gentle spice and fruitiness of Jura's 10-year-old whiskey right...
...Cross. Although pre-war discussion caused students to look outside, it was the unintended side product of the war itself that let the outside in. RETURNING TO A NEW HARVARD Student veterans returned to a fundamentally different place. Harvard now saw itself as a leader of, rather than a retreat from, the real world. Government and military research continued to grow at the University. Class sizes were growing, and Conant’s meritocratic admissions policies continued to diversify the applicant pool (by 1952, 55 percent of the applicants would be from public school, according to Keller?...
...percussion-heavy section that reintroduced the trumpets.The trumpet work was especially adept at conveying the calamity of battle in a controlled manner. The last two movements, “The Hero’s Works of Peace” and “The Hero’s Retreat from the World and Fulfillment,” brilliantly capped off the performance with soaring melodies concluding with a trumpet fanfare that resonated in intensity.The performance as a whole was characterized by increasing passion and energy. The final fanfare was a graceful farewell to an intense performance, a fitting microcosm...
...visit in more unusual ways. One of the nation's top witch-doctors, Gendheng Pamungkas, says he is perfecting a voodoo spell he will cast on Bush while he is in Indonesia. Tropical downpours, Gendheng says, will mar the American President's stay, scheduled for the tea-plantation retreat of Bogor rather than Jakarta, partly because of safety concerns. Confusing father and son's vegetable dislikes, Gendheng also promises to "turn the broccoli against Bush" - a vaguely threatening if puzzling hex. "I am casting this spell because it is what the majority of Indonesians want," explains Gendheng. Even the nation...