Word: unaffectedness
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The answer, the scientists quickly discovered, was yes. In the first experiment, a bomb containing billions of anthrax spores was exploded, soon killing 60 sheep that were brought to the island. Occasional tests continued throughout the war. In 1943 a dead sheep from Gruinard washed ashore on the mainland, contaminating...
Hoban's newest book, about a 12-year-old boy named Riddley Walker, is filled with rhymes and stories that have all the unaffected charm and ring of the Frances stories:
There's a big difference between Polish jokes and cat jokes because for cats, "harmless" ridicule often leads to physical abuse. No cat remains unaffected when it's been set afire, had an eye shot out, or been locked in a closet for three weeks.
Though it seems clear to Spanish medical authorities that improperly processed rapeseed oil is the culprit, doctors are still baffled about the precise cause of the strange malady. Samples analyzed so far have contained a number of foreign compounds, among them aniline, azobenzene, and anilide oils. But none of them...
This is fertile territory for exploration and no recent effort in any medium is more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat...