Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a genius among the storytellers of 1981, it is J. O'Callahan, from Marshfield, Mass., a man of such poetry, wit and elegance that, even in a rugby shirt, he seems Elizabethan. O'Callahan writes his own superb stories. The Herring Shed, told from the point of view of a 14-year-old girl learning the mysteries of her first job in Nova Scotia during the darkest days of World War II, is a minor masterpiece of coming-of-age literature. As she strings up her fish to dry, O'Callahan's young narrator...
...strictness bemuses those who recall that the Church of England was created because Henry VIII, against papal orders, wanted to shed Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, and marry Anne Boleyn. As it happened, the much married monarch did not actually divorce Catherine, but engineered an annulment. Nor did he divorce Anne or any of his succeeding four wives.* The ancient Anglican church tradition forced King Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 so that he might marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, the twice-divorced "woman I love," and led Princess Margaret to reject the divorced Peter Townsend in 1955. Margaret...
...ahead. Alas, it merely coaxed them more quickly into the freshman class of cannon fodder. Fulton is a little off the point: the injustices of recruiting for Viet Nam involved class more than race. It was the lower-middle and lower classes, regardless of race, who went to shed blood, while their betters observed from society's good seats...
...last year when Maryknoll magazine, edited by D'Escoto before he joined the Nicaraguan revolution, lauded Cuba for "advances in a brief span of 20 years [which] are unparalleled in Latin America." The magazine's publisher, Father Darryl Hunt, like the ill-starred Father Bourgeois, has shed all nonpartisanship on the touchy issue of El Salvador. He charges that "the U.S. continues to support a clique of rightist murderers...
...years old, she underwent amniocentesis in the 17th week of pregnancy. Guided by ultrasound scans, doctors inserted a needle through the woman's abdomen and into the separate amniotic sacs, withdrawing a sample of the fluid that cushioned each of the developing children. The fluid contained cells shed by the fetuses, and these were analyzed for genetic abnormalities. The samples revealed that both twins were boys, but only one showed the normal number of chromosomes. The other had an extra chromosome, which indicated Down's syndrome, a condition characterized by mental retardation and often accompanied by physical defects...