Word: tiring
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...most improbable of auto accidents, a two-tire wheel assembly detached itself from a trailer truck on the Long Island Expressway and smashed into a limousine carrying Gary Grant, 64. The accident mashed the priceless Grant nose, bruised his expensive ribs, and dispatched the actor for nearly a week's stay at St. John's Hospital, where he shared a semiprivate room with the limousine's driver. Also hospitalized: Gratia von Furstenberg, 23, a cousin of Actress Betsy von Furstenberg, who was accompanying Grant to the airport to see him off, and wound up at St. John...
...wanted to make their big corporation bigger. Burns took on the job, and started out to do what he thought the oilmen wanted. He tried to diversify Cities Service, acquired Fesco, Inc., a maker of molded-plastic housewares, and agreed to acquire, pending stockholder approval, Akron Equipment Co., a tire-mold manufacturer. So far so good. But Burns had also urged that Cities Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based producer of natural gas, and a uranium mining and processing firm called United Nuclear Corp. Both deals fell through, partly, it seems evident, because the Cities Service powers...
...Esteem. Hibakusha, who number about 90,000 and account for one-fifth of Hiroshima's present population, are often refused employment on the grounds that they tire easily, lack drive or are prone to fatal malignancies. They are frequently shunned as mates for fear that they carry radiation-tainted genes...
...next year. Now, it is the fall of next year. Snow turned to rain, to dirty tire-gray streams in the sidewalk ice. Then spring came slowly, stayed shortly. Commencement was not crisp and bright. The sky was thick and the ground was heavy. Then we lost them--the seniors--they disappeared in the witches' kettle of summer. We have not seen them since. And now it is the fall, and soggy leaves lie in the gutter like Corn Flakes left in the bowl too long...
...divorce, and the master bedroom, if not the whole house, is sure to be redone by the remaining partner. And even without such upheavals, Americans think of change as a form of therapy. "People can afford to be bored," says Dallas Decorator Howard Goldman. "They can now tire of things they couldn't afford to tire of in less affluent times...