Word: versa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outraged diatribes for one of the most famous remarks never made: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." What Wilson really said was something quite different: "For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa...
...including the drinking by the woman (while an abbot prays) of thrice-blessed wine mixed with lion's blood by an alchemist. The New York Daily News in its salad days even had a sex-control editor. But nothing worked. Parents who wanted boys got girls, and vice versa...
...years ago, and a couple gets $600 a month, all plus free room and board; even live-out maids earn upwards of $200 a month, and the increasingly popular part-time cleaning woman averages $10 a day. What is more, the servant chooses the family, not vice versa. Says Mrs. Betty A. Heinke, who runs a California employment agency: "First, I ask the client's telephone number and address. If it's not a good location, that presents a problem right off. Then I want to know how many people in the family, how many children, their ages...
...possible to have a good Hamlet almost in vacuo. But a good Othello is impossible without a good Iago, and vice versa. Alfred Drake shows here that he can excel in something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect...
...four-to seven-year intervals. A vaccine could be prepared to give immunity lasting up to two years. In 1940 came the discovery of type B virus, and the realization that it belonged to a different immunologic family-vaccination against type A gave no immunity against B. and vice versa. Later came recognition of type C and a distant cousin, A-prime. A polyvalent vaccine gave limited protection against these. But there was another trouble: type A proved to be especially capable of mutation-changing its biological nature. Result: a vaccine effective against...