Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticizing the vagueness of the language. "It requires a consistent probing to ascertain what lies behind so much of its wording," he complained, adding that he could not judge it without "knowledge of the government's financial policies." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe expressed delight that Labor had already "shed some of their unmentionables"-such as nationalization...
...past 18 months the clinic's 56 patients have shed an average of 24 lbs. each. For their 20 hour-and-a-half sessions, at which they discuss their eating habits, patients pay a hefty fee of $500, no doubt part of the reason the clinic has had only five dropouts. Despite the dues (which go to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital for obesity research), Jordan and Levitz are booked solid until September and are now planning to train successful patients as lay consultants...
...shuttered the bordellos, sent the highrollers packing, and imported pianos and preachers in a wistful attempt to transform mining camps into mini-Philadelphias. Baby Doe was not one of them. A pocket Venus from Oshkosh and no better than she should be, blonde, blue-eyed Elizabeth McCourt Doe had shed a feckless husband and arrived in Leadville - Colorado's Magic Mountain - almost at the moment in 1880 when the played-out gold fields turned out to be mere icing on the world's richest slice of silver. She became "the Silver Queen" heroine of ballad and bawdy tale...
This is the ambitious task that William Stott sets out to accomplish in Documentary Expression and Thirties America. As a literary and cultural chronicle Stott's book is magnificent. But as an analysis that attempts to shed light on the relationship between thirties culture and the period's social and political history, it has serious flaws...
...that it had the answer to the problem last year, when it painted some of the reindeer antlers with a phosphorescent paint that would shine in cars' headlights. So successful was the experiment that not one of the glowing reindeer was lost. One insoluble problem remained however: reindeer shed their antlers annually...