Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar by Zino Davidoff. 92 pages. McGraw-Hill. $5.95. What really troubles a woman about cigars is not their aroma but the look of contentment that drifts across a man's face when he lights one up. No meat loaf could ever...
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. Edited by Alan Aldridge. 156 pages. Delacorte. $5.95. A broad selection-from A Hard Day's Night to When I'm Sixty-Four-with illustrations as up to date as record jackets. This cleverly conceived and skillfully packaged songbook visually conveys the romance, toughness...
Imagine a room full of women trying their hardest to act the way your older sister, mother, or grandmother would act on their best behavior. After I filled out an application, a Harvard faculty wife took my temperature with the slowest thermometer in the world. Every five minutes she checked...
At the next stage dozens of donors were waiting to be screened by four or five nurses. There was no line. Instead, people just sat spaced out in two long rows until they felt they had really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation...
The nurse who screened me took my blood pressure and then my pulse, which was racing about at 112 beats per minute. She told me that she would complete the screening but would have to "defer" me unless my pulse fell below 100. Meanwhile. a guy with a slow pulse...