Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balance when one limb, particularly a leg, has been shortened by disease or accident. But there is always a danger of infection; the bone ends may not unite properly, or there may be complications in the soft tissues. An orthopedist will not lightly undertake such operations for the sole purpose of reducing height. Ann Rowston's extreme tallness, however, justified the procedure, and Sur geon Griffiths satisfied himself that she was healthy enough to stand the strain...
...defense of such changes, Dowey explained that the Westminster Confession by itself was neither "ancient enough nor modern enough," to serve as the church's sole confession of faith, and that what the committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism has made it clear that the Bible is not inerrant in all factual details. Dowey argued that to call the Bible "the normative witness," rather than infallible, is to assert its power as "the norm or authority over all other witness," but he, also conceded, after hearing strong conservative criticism, that...
...Washington last week, Simon was the guest of honor at a pre-unveiling luncheon (filet of sole espagnole) given by National Gallery Director John Walker and attended by such notables as Navy Secretary Paul Nitze, Dutch Ambassador Carl Schurmann, Pittsburgh Art Patron Paul Mellon and William Walton, chairman of the Federal Government's Commission of Fine Arts. Then Titus was ceremoniously brought from the gallery's basement, and while flashbulbs popped and TV cameras whirred, hung before red velvet in its place of honor. Yet, for all the trouble and cost he had incurred to acquire Titus, the lean, craggy...
...identical to the one he had found inside the package the sinister foreigner had given him by mistake! Like some great spark plug, Bundie's mind flashed. Swiftly, he recounted the day's events to himself, "The circle with the Roman numeral seven in it was stamped on the sole of the foot of the other corpse. There must be a connection...
...poor alone do not make up Boston's population, nor must their problems be the sole concern of the New Bostonians. But until they confront the problems of poverty, discrimination, and education, their attempt to rebuild John Winthrop's "City on a Hill" will remain a futile experiment. Their symbol will be the Prudential Tower, graceless, sterile, out-of-scale, but nonetheless a tribute to Boston's ingenuity and progress, though hardly its humanity