Word: spilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a fashion, but no one seemed to realize that hotly radioactive dust was being carried by air currents over the top of its six-foot walls. Unseen, unfelt and unsuspected, it moved around the building, getting into clothes and shoes. An attempt at cleanup was made, but the spill was not reported...
...hard decision. One school of surgeons holds that it is too dangerous to remove a big tumor intact because this may throw the patient into shock; another holds that it is more dangerous to drain the tumor first and then remove the husk, because fluid containing malignant cells may spill into the abdominal cavity. Surgeon Eames decided to run the risk of shock, try to get the tumor out unbroken and undrained...
...that thoughtful U.S. businessmen are pondering with increasing concern. Instead of slowing down, as most businessmen had expected last spring, business has boomed higher and higher, picking up momentum every month. Warns Sears, Roebuck Chairman Theodore V. Houser: "With industry operating at capacity, inflationary pressures are created which spill over into labor, new materials, prices and demands for all forms of goods and services." Adds David Rockefeller, executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have reached a point where we stand on the verge of trying to grow too fast, if indeed we have not already started." Says...
Next, there was Sir Winston's daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular...
...drawbacks of the contemporary English novel in which the writer's gentlemanly reach never exceeds the grasp of a meticulously tailored talent. However, the personal relationships of her characters have a tenderness and warmth noticeably above Anglo-Saxon room temperature. When East and West finally do spill blood in Some Inner Fury, it is not stanched with muffling allusions to history-on-the-march, but flows with the startling immediacy and open-faced surprise of an accident in the family kitchen where homely, familiar objects sometimes rise up and deal the unkindest cuts...