Word: stiff
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...burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops a warning leak that causes a severe headache and stiff neck, and a test will then show blood in the spinal fluid. Among the estimated 100,000 cases of brain aneurysm each year in the U.S.-most of them caused by congenital weakness of an artery-probably 50,000 patients' lives might be saved if the patients could...
...archetype of the author's army of squalid journalists -a wretch so practiced at sleazy sleight-of-mind that, although he is a bachelor, he tells everyone that he has a wife and six sickly children. The other is the unnamed Assistant Commissioner, an old jungle hand stiff with integrity and old wounds and hated by his underlings at Scotland Yard. He is a magnificent Greene hero who pursues criminals with stolid skill, shutting away the unhappy knowledge that his quarries receive justice only accidentally...
...rest of the Ivy League is tougher this year. Munro isn't worried about Brown, who beat Harvard 5-0 last year and finished second. Penn, Princeton, and Dartmouth are the stiff competitors in his book--Yale, Cornell, and Columbia are slated to fill out the bottom of the League
...spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance of $14,165 a month alimony and child support for the couple's precocious daughter Portland, 13, and son Alexander, 6; Mason agreed to shell out a temporary $7.000. Even with all that dough at stake, it was stiff upper lips all round. As the hearing was going on. Pamela was charmingly interviewing James on a pretaped TV show. "One should be able to talk to someone to whom one has been married for 22 years," sniffed Pamela. Added James: "We're just plain folks, me and my family...
...most obvious solution would be to kick out the price props, scrap the export subsidy, and forget all about special taxes on imports-all of which would save U.S. taxpayers $365 million a year. That, plus a loosening of the stiff acreage controls that favor the small Southern cotton growers, would enable the efficiently automated bigger growers in the flatlands of the West to expand, prosper and better compete in world markets. But in Washington this was the last cotton-pickin' solution likely to be considered...