Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eskimos are incapable of thought as such, of generalization, of "moods." They can attend to just one thing at a time, cannot concentrate for more than 20 minutes. They have no sense of time or hurry, none of providing against the future. In the spring they undergo physical mutations. The eyes intensify, the skin becomes red-glowing purple; they gather in frenzy at the trading posts and copulate day & night "in a sort of delirium, in exhaustible and insatiable." In summer they wander miserably, plagued with insomnia, sleep where they drop from exhaustion. To the "severely magnificent winter months...
Today only five States (N. Y., Wis., N. J., Ohio, Maine) compel litigants to undergo blood tests when appropriate...
...Your Majesty suffers?" asked one of his former friends. "It seems you no longer have the floor." "Bandage him well," said another, "so he will be in condition to undergo his punishment...
...continent that diets are going to undergo "a drastic modification," Davis contended. "In Germany proper, the food position has not been truly normal for several years. Restrictions are great now, with rationing general; but this is partly to insure maintenance of stocks deemed essential to enable the country to outlast Britain despite the blockade," he said...
Last week Rufo Romero made one of the most unusual protestations of innocence in legal history, one of the strangest of the Orient's many historic face-saving gestures. He offered to undergo any kind of brain surgery that would knife out of his head any recollection of military matters. He wanted to save his face even if it meant losing his memory...