Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obedient and do at once what you are told, as you will find it will come much easier to you the sooner you begin." The advice helped give her father a lifelong case of the stammers. Elizabeth appears to have thrived on it, suffering nothing worse than an occasional sinus attack. By the time she was eight she was joining in on the royal discipline, chiding Sister Margaret Rose, age 4, for exposing too much leg in public...
Designers of the latest Paris fashions owe a debt to the Latin poet Virgil for their "new" ideas. The photographs worthily exemplify his description of Venus as a huntress: nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis [bare knee, and flowing robes gathered in a knot...
...aired the beach spot during its news broadcast. It then asked for viewers' opinions. The change of heart was instant: 8 to 1 in the commercial's favor. Some viewers were eager to complain about the ads they thought more offensive, like bad-breath treatments and sinus aids...
Half of Nevada's 60 lawmakers have put themselves under the needles of one Lok Yee-kung. There have been several claimed cures and even more conversions. Assemblyman Robert Hal Smith reported that his 20-year sinus condition disappeared after needles were stuck in his forehead and alongside his nose. Equally as gratifying to his wife, the treatment silenced his snoring. Another legislator said that he had been cured of the pain of a childhood knee injury, and a third claimed to have been relieved−though only temporarily−of a number of leg ailments. Scores of constituents...
Inventing comes almost naturally to Winchell, a graduate of a New York school of industrial arts. At age 13, he realized that his sinus trouble seemed to ease when he held his nostrils open, so he contrived a V-shaped gadget to do the job. Later he patented a transparent lens cap for cameras (to help the amateur who shoots with a lens cap on) and invented a device made out of plastic ice cube trays, used for transplanting seedlings...