Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the year, interest rates climbed by one-fifth or more, and many would-be borrowers could not get credit at any price. For lack of money, scores of communities put off plans for needed schools, parks and highways. Thousands of prospective home buyers were compelled to postpone their dreams...
Whatever the specifics, Madame Ky was only one of the tens of thousands of Asian women who flock every year to plastic surgeons to make themselves "more charming" to their husbands and boy friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who...
Foot-and-mouth disease is one of the most fiercely contagious of viral infections-for beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, deer, antelope and hedgehogs. But even in the midst of epizootics, when tens of thousands of animals have had to be destroyed, man has seemed almost miraculously immune, no matter...
As the big-buying Christmas season begins, there are crosscurrents in the mood of the U.S. consumer. On one hand, the Commerce Department reported last week that fewer consumers than a year ago plan to buy such "heavy" items as houses, expensive household appliances, or cars, though the tens of...
The tens of thousands of Seventh-Day Adventists in Southern California suffer from most of the same diseases as their non-Adventist neighbors, including cancer. Yet on the average, the Adventist men live longer. Most conspicuously, they have only one-fourth as much lung disease as other Californians. Why?