Word: ten-year-old
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...ten-year-old New Jersey case was reopened in part as a result of the publicity over the Michigan deaths. Over a ten-month period, starting in December 1965, at least 13 patients died mysteriously at Riverdell Hospital in suburban Oradell, less than an hour's drive from Manhattan. Most of them had undergone surgery but seemed well on the road to recovery...
...Britain, 60,000 members of slimming clubs claim that collectively they shed 1,500 tons of fat a year. In West Germany, a ten-year-old Schlankheits-welle, or slimming wave, has helped cut annual per capita consumption of potatoes from 109 kilos to 92 kilos. Even in France, there has been a notable move by embonpoint watchers from the sauce-rich grande cuisine to simpler, lower-calorie meals. Throughout Europe these days, all too solid citizens refer to the latest weight-paring magazines and diets in the awed terms once reserved for three-star restaurants. They seem to have...
...liberal father Don Juan preferred exile to life under Franco's authoritarian rule; in 1948, though, he agreed to have his son educated in Spain under Franco's guidance. Hostility toward the Bourbon heir from both rightists and left-wing antimonarchists was so intense that the ten-year-old Prince became a virtual prisoner in Las Jarillas, a heavily guarded Madrid estate where he began private high school studies. There Juan Carlos received his first indoctrination into the quasi-Fascist philosophy of Franco's Movimiento National...
Michaels's fear is submission--often unable to face it, he doesn't allow himself as narrator of most of the stories to sublimate, the failures always being homosexual suicides in the upstairs apartment, or men in concentration camps retreating into religious ecstasy, or ten-year-old male children dreaming of running over beautiful women and then nursing them back to willing sexuality. It is always other people who are being emotionally castrated. When the main character of a story is Michaels, fully grown and easily identified, the author is too embarrassed to say what he says about himself, aged...
...well. Their songs are essentially pale imitations of the 1960s, in which one can hear echoes of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Beach Boys mingled with the Rollers' own routine four-chord harmonies and chug-a-chug rhythms. The lyrics are never ambitious enough to confuse a ten-year-old. Sample...