Word: subsistance
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Ninety miles inland from the Persian Gulf, the oasis of Buraimi has slumbered for centuries. Its 8,000 inhabitants subsist on dates, camel meat and milk, and live in eight, mud-walled villages scorched by the gusts of the shamal. No one knows for certain to whom Buraimi belongs. Northward lies Trucial Oman, "protected" by the British; westward lies Saudi Arabia; all around is uncharted waste, so desolate that even the Arabs call it Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter...
With only one bed vacant for an emergency, the Radcliffe Infirmary said last night it was sending girls with slight fevers back to their rooms to subsist in blankets on aspirin. Otherwise, the eight-bed infirmary is full of grippe and flu cases all running a high temperature...
Arthur himself is a dreary specimen, but what happens to him is often fascinating. Novelist Bazin writes with impressive authority about the treatment of patients, the warm baths in which they are lulled, the prolonged torpor and occasional flights of excitement in which they subsist, the subtle divisions of status that arise among them, as if in mocking duplicate of the outer world...
After all, what more indication of the womb-like nature of college is needed than the behavior of an alumnus returning for a reunion? He tries to abandon for a week or so all his "responsibilities," to immerse himself in an ivied atmosphere where comfortable memories subsist in every cranny...
...congregation in being, rather than to court destruction by resisting the state. "It is after a decision by faith and trusting in God alone that the Hungarian Lutheran Church has taken the way which it considers a narrow path in the present world . . ." Surely the church "might subsist in Hungary and perform its task under no more adverse circumstances than the apostles had in the Roman Empire. We cannot, therefore, take the responsibility for starting a so-called Church Resistance...