Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great President, because he didn't believe in the exercise of presidential power. The country needed him in a deep-down peace-serenity-virtue kind of way, but it was a four-year, not an eight-year need. Still, for the first time since Jack Kennedy, I shed tears...
Four years ago, she hit the American scene in her size 50 muumuu, resembling a Hudson Hornet draped in one of Omar's tents. But look what's happened to Mama Cass Elliott. After almost two years of dieting, she has shed better than 120 Ibs., down from 290 to a mere 164. It was expensive, though-"about $2,000 a pound," said Cass, explaining that her regimen (four days of complete fasting per week) finally put her in the hospital and forced her to cancel $250,000 worth of bookings. "The Mama Cass diet can give...
...PLAY begins with a soliloquy by Saul, which is unfortunate, for Woods seems unable to shed his self-consciousness when on the stage alone. But as soon as the other characters arrive and give his speeches direction, Saul becomes a convincingly tragic figure...
...This laissez-faire jungle where the only right the patient has is that of paying the wildly nonstandard fee and where the doctor can literally bury his mistakes and be free to make new ones, just as fatally irreversible as the old ones, will end only when people shed their awe of that imposing facade the A.M.A. has so skillfully built and treat the practitioners of that not so arcane science like the technician every professional...
...laws was passed to protect workers. Last week the good doctor, now grown fragile with age, observed her 100th birthday amid family and friends at her home in Hadlyme, Conn. The U.S., she believes, is a much better country now than when she began her crusade. "It has shed many injustices, much blindness, ignorance, arrogance, even ruthlessness." If that is true, she shares the credit...