Word: unwashedness
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Semmelweiss studied the data and made the leap of inductive logic. Ward I was served by midwives and had a mortality rate of 2%. Ward II was served by interns and had a mortality rate of 13%. The midwives did not examine their pregnant patients. The interns did examine theirs...
Dorofeyev noticed that something was amiss when passengers disembarking from the plane carried off bags crammed full of soap, shaving cream and shampoo. Could it be that Krasnodar was the home of the Great Unwashed? Odd, he thought since an announcement during the flight had proudly identified their destination as...
After Son bathes and becomes more acceptable to Jadine's delicate senses, he draws her closer and closer to a mythical world of ancient Black customs. He is Natural Man, flexible enough to do and be everything for her, but rigid enough to make her as "natural" as he is...
Vice President Johnson's ties to the Kennedy White House were strained. Bobby and others on J.F.K.'s staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were...
But tourists have always brought in most of Miami's money, and when Miami Beach's popularity began to decline in the 1960's, the area began to grow desperate. Florida has always been more than ordinarily susceptible to greed, perhaps because of its newness; in a city where "old...