Word: tracts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William was crying and kicking two hours after surgery. The next day, he was not producing enough bile, so a medication which enhances bile flow, cholestyramine, was flown from the U.S. to Tokyo for him. The output of the baby's digestive tract by late January showed that he was producing bile and that it was being used in the metabolism of the special formula that he was receiving in addition to mother's milk. Last week he was strong enough to make the long trip home...
...property in question is a large tract of forest land bequeathed to the University by Ernest G. Stillman '08 upon his death in 1949. Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, would need to purchase 240 acres of that land to build a controversial pumped storage power plant which has been tied up in litigation for the past ten years...
Sandbox is so snide, so single-mindedly superficial, that it turns out to be a rather effective tract against what it is touting: it makes having a family look like intellectual suicide. One searches throughout for a bit of humanity, a moment of emotional challenge, and finds only one, in the performance of Lois Smith. Hers is one of those rare talents that makes practically every role she has done memorable: the waitress in East of Eden, for example, or Jack Nicholson's sister in Five Easy Pieces. Here she plays (excellently) a testy working woman...
...Soviet Union will begin construction of new embassy facilities in Washington and Moscow. The 550 Russians in Washington, now spread out in five buildings in the capital, will occupy a new compound that includes a twelve-story office tower and residences, to be built on a 12½-acre tract some time in 1975. The 300 Americans attached to the U.S. embassy in Moscow will get a similar complex on a ten-acre plot in the center of the Soviet city...
...majority of U.S. citizens, after all, are graduates of the steerage class, and many of them can remember family tales of the crossing. Most have an intimate knowledge of the laborious ancestral climb from sweatshops to Blue Cross and double time for overtime, from the reeking streets to tract housing. They remember, they are grateful, and they have a very low threshold of tolerance when it comes to criticism of the nation that made the advance possible. For them, the criticism does not apply; they give it the lie by invoking their own past...