Word: sulphureous
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...spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
...majority eleven will forgo the additional 5% hike set for July, and the Saudis and the Emirates will move up from 5% to 10%. A minority view is that the eleven will be forced to cut their prices by such devices as discounts for crude with a high sulphur content, and the eventual increase will settle somewhere between 5% and 10%. Oilmen see only an outside chance of a price war between the Saudis and their OPEC colleagues-but that chance is strong enough to make the battle of the barrels over the next months a suspenseful struggle...
Berlitz recites the familiar roll call of the triangle's victims-ranging from large ships like the 425-ft. freighter Marine Sulphur Queen, which disappeared off the Dry Tortugas in 1963, to small yachts, like the ocean racer Revonoc, which vanished off Florida in 1967. He also makes much of the famous "lost patrol" incident in December 1945, when five Navy torpedo bombers on a training flight, as well as a flying boat sent out to search for them, seemed to vanish into thin air. Heightening the sense of mystery, Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained...
...succeed in doing so the last time they took on A T & T, in a suit filed during the Truman Administration in 1949 That suit was finally resolved by the Eisenhower Administration. During an informal meeting with A T & T's general counsel at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Ike's Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, offered what the AT&T man described as a "friendly tip" on how to negotiate a settlement. Soon after, the Government approved a consent decree that allowed Bell to keep Western Electric in return for a wrist-slap promise...
...uniform, being captured by the Austrian army, whereas Parrott's new one tells all about his subsequent trial. It also includes many of the digressions that Paul Selver cut out. Some of the digressions are extremely funny--for instance, Animal World magazine's ex-editor's description of the Sulphur-Bellied Whale, the Artful Prosperian, the Edible Ox ("the ancient prototype of the cow") and the Sepia Infusorian ("which I characterized as a sort of sewer rat")--and others are hardly funny at all. The new translation has more good stuff in it and it's probably more accurate...