Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fidgeted in his chair, muttering: "Daid. . . . He's daid." A woman waited stonily, clutching her daughter with one hand and a note from school in the other. The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday." The boy grinned...
This plan, voted by San Franciscans ten years ago over doctors' objections, has had a rough career. Because members' payments were set too low, doctors have often been paid less than the scheduled fees. Last fortnight, aroused by rebuffs of their demands for a 15% raise in fees, and by Medical Director Alexander S. Keenan's suggestion that they had needlessly pyramided costs by calling for too many laboratory tests and X rays, the doctors finally rebelled...
...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
...year from the Egyptian government, is also heavily endowed by wealthy Moslem alumni. There are no entrance exams, though every Egyptian student is expected to know the Koran (the Moslem Bible and Al Azhar's main textbook) by heart-a feat they master by the age of ten...
...kept libraries (they don't know what treasures they have, he says), pieced together unpublished cantatas, pages of which he found scattered through several countries. He once corresponded for five years with a Philadelphia dentist before getting to see a Handel letter that the dentist owned. He unearthed ten unknown Handel manuscript librettos in California's Huntington Library...