Word: types
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Such a clime, and such a corner of the world, is likely to produce a special type of ruler, and in Plaquemines it did: Leander Perez, cigar-chomping, white-suited boss of the parish for almost half a century. He ruled like an arrogant and protective plantation owner, although he preferred sowing oil leases to crops. He fought federal intervention with Faulknerian tenacity, a battle that began over control of oil reserves and evolved into a crusade against "forced integration," which he saw as the plot of an international Communist conspiracy. Taunted Governor Earl Long: "What are you going...
...satchel used to conceal weapons in the Moro kidnaping was found at the scene. It was a German-made case of a type not normally exported to Italy...
...earliest researchers to express concern over microwaves was a New York ophthalmologist, Dr. Milton Zaret, who warned more than a decade ago that even low-level exposure could produce a peculiar type of cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
...born from within her natural mother's womb. To herald this girl as a test-tube baby only perpetuates the myth that we are entering a Huxleian world of callous indifference to childbirth and motherhood. It's a glorious day for women afflicted with the type of sterility Mrs. Brown has overcome...
...settle down in Moscow and wash his dirty socks? We're also worried that he even might be a Russian spy or something. It would be different, of course, if he were a James Bond or somebody of that ilk, but he doesn't look the type. I think she should get a divorce, go back to Greece and her ships and hang around the poop deck and forget the whole thing. What do you advise...