Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amendment to the Noise Ordinance, if passed, would require Cambridge residents who own "bug zappers" to shut them off between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. if their neighbors complain about the sound of frying arthropods...
Whooping cough, named for the distinctive sound made by its victims as they gasp for air between bouts of violent coughing, was until the 1940s a major killer of children. Caused by a bacterial infection that increases the amount of mucus in the lungs, the disease sometimes results in convulsions and death. Over the past four decades, however, pertussis has been largely subdued in developed nations by mass inoculations with a vaccine made from killed pertussis bacteria. Now doctors annually pump some 18 million doses of the vaccine into U.S. children--usually in the form of a D.P.T. shot...
...these sound just too academic for summer reading, try the Science Fantasy Bookstore (8 JFK St. St.) on top of the Wursthaus, for your favorite new, used and out-of-print science fiction paperbacks and hardcovers. And if any book at all will tax your brain past its limit, the Million Year Picnic (99 Mt. Auburn St.) and Newbury Comics (30 JFK St.) may be the perfect remedy...
...sound thinker who analyzes things thoroughly. His judgments clearly show the process of reasoning, there are no jumps there," says Richard M. Coleman, a classmate of Scalia's both as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and at Harvard Law School...
...Sound like fun viewing? It is. The scene when the high schoolers' taxi pulls up next to Mr. Bueller's is an absolute classic...