Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caswell also set up two telephone hot lines for New Yorkers worried about having Legionnaires' disease to call in and discuss their symptoms. Almost 16,000 hot-line calls were logged in eight days. Health department technicians in a mobile van took more than 300 blood specimens from people...
Since True Runners run, as the high priest Sheehan puts it, "not because we feel better but because we don't care how we feel," it is surprising that such spartans have even felt the backlash. Yet the September issue of Runner's World gives over an entire...
If the election's speed was surprising, so was the identity of the 263rd Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. In the first days after Paul's death, Luciani, 65, Patriarch of Venice, had been mentioned only as a remote compromise candidate if the conclave reached a deadlock. Now...
As would be expected, questions of morality played a central role in students' attacks on Harvard's investment policy; to a surprising degree, however, both sides in the fight relied on questions of evidence -- questions over the pragmatic effect of Harvard's investments in South Africa. The moral issues, to...
Paul could act with surprising calm in sweeping away the disciplines of centuries. In 1966 he decreed an end to the traditional obligation of abstaining from meat on Fridays. He abolished the notorious Index of Forbidden Books, which had once included the works of John Locke, Victor Hugo and Voltaire...