Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd ones, however, an end to war would spell a beginning of something else. The Junkers, the big industrialists and the professional soldiers are schooled in the belief that unconditional surrender need not be catastrophic-unless imposed by the Russians. Once before, they might recollect, a timely yielding had proved surmountable. They would reason that a new Versailles dictated by Western powers would scarcely rob them of their skills and the ability eventually to use them again...
Hardy Abe. Lincoln, the son of a lean, tired mother, was conceived during a bitter rainy spell at the end of an unusually hard Kentucky winter. All this, says Petersen, predisposed him to a lanky figure, active metabolism, fickle blood pressure and extreme sensitiveness to the environment. In the harsh winters of the Kentucky and Illinois wilderness, he grew up with strong inhibitions (developed to conserve his physical strength), tired, moody, sensitive to the weather and to men. In his sex life he was by turns passionate (he "could scarcely keep his hands off [women]") and inhibited. But the weather...
...Whether he was asleep or awake, Tom's stomach usually had a ten-to 30-minute spell of vigorous contractions every three hours or so. (Unless there was something inside, the stomach walls touched each other.) Between times, contractions were rare, slow and gentle. The stomach could be made to start work in the midst of a rest period by feeding it solids (e.g., a bouillon cube); it could be made to relax in the middle of work by feeding it liquids. > Tom's stomach secreted juice continuously, about 8 to 15 cc. an hour even while resting...
...mechanization of quartz mining are well under way. The sentiments of the Signal Corps are visible in a big poster which hangs in many a cutting room. It reads, "GIVE US THE CRYSTALS AND WE'LL PUT THE ... -------ON THE RUN." In radio code the dots & dashes spell...
...Mother Will Know. At 20, he caught a heavy cold, and when he took his handkerchief from his mouth after a coughing spell, he saw with horror "a tiny spot of blood on it." Life, that had hitherto been "desirable and glorious," was charged suddenly and forever with the terror of death. This terror spurred Wolfe's rebellion against those who urged him to look for security in life-"the crawling, abject, bird-in-a-hand theory." To his mother's plea that he settle down to teach in Asheville, he replied "I must make or ruin myself...