Word: slit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...code in classes; men are required to wear shirts and ties and women must wear skirts or dresses. To pick up their monthly meal tickets, men must get the length of their hair checked, while women are required to wear brassieres and skirts of "modest length"--with a maximum slit of three inches. Culottes, decollete dresses and spaghetti straps are forbidden under the code, as are ankle bracelets because "they make the guys think you're from the wrong side of the tracks," Penny Petr, an ORU sophomore, jokes. "I know it sounds terrible, but it's not that...
...eyes and skimming my brow as it flew over my head. He thought I didn't understand and he wanted to teach me. He pointed out that most of the people at the bar were queens or prostitutes. So I looked at all those elegant women with dresses slit high up the slim leg and cut low down the smooth chest, and asked whether our barmaid Mickie...
...Acholi, whom Amin's forces had been killing by the thousands for years. In one grisly incident, a captured Ugandan soldier, his arms and feet bound, was suddenly attacked by a knife-wielding Acholi woman who slashed off his genitals, stuffed them in his mouth and then slit open his stomach. Taken into custody, she explained that she had waited five years to avenge the murder of her husband by agents of Amin's dread State Research Bureau, who had killed him in exactly the same...
...duplicate that miracle, Staffieri made a small slit in the esophagus of a laryngectomy patient. Then he flapped part of the esophageal wall over the top of the trachea, forming a valve linking windpipe and pharynx. To speak, the patient simply placed a finger over the external breathing hole in the neck. Exhaled from the lungs, air was forced through the internal esophageal slit, allowing the pharynx to vibrate and create sounds. But the valve could open only when air from the lungs forced it open. When food or liquid came down the esophagus, the valve remained closed...
...open, they shed their dry, yellowish skins for the last time. Soon the males strike up their cacophony of ticking, buzzing and shrill whirring sounds. It is all music to the females, who slit open tree bark after they have been impregnated and store their fertilized eggs there. A few weeks later, both parents die. But cicada life goes on as the eggs hatch. The newborn nymphs drop to the ground, burrow, and the age-old cycle starts anew...