Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Invited to the Same Party, she quotes a friend: "If we wanted to go to parties together, we'd still be married." In fact, Ford tactics often reflect the celebrated advice of Mr. Punch to a young person contemplating marriage: "Don't." Charlotte's web of don'ts includes, with some reservations: rigid enforcement of "house rules" for weekend guests; bedroom segregation of unmarried lovers; gossiping about mutual friends and former loved ones; serving drugs at a party...
...glowing popularity of wood-burning stoves may be bringing back a skin complaint virtually unknown in the U.S. since the arrival of central heating: erythema abigne, literally redness of the skin from fire. Dermatologists warn that prolonged or repeated exposure to intense heat can cause permanent web-patterned skin discolorations, ranging in shade from pink to brown. (Habitual use of very hot water bottles and heating pads can lead to the same problem.) Dr. Stephen Stone of Springfield, Ill., had one patient whose upper back, shoulder to shoulder, was crisscrossed by marks resulting from sitting too near a wood-burning...
...Southern Congressmen found their way into the Abscam web through other intermediaries. South Carolina Democrat John W. Jenrette, 43, apparently was tipped...
History haunts Erks as "trails of blood, a web without geometry, a tangle of routes." His present is also lethal and complicated. He must drive four Chinese aliens over the Canadian border into Washington State, detour through Reno and deliver his human cargo in San Francisco. One of the Chinese is bleeding to death from a mysteriously inflicted knife wound. Another, by the name of Ginarn Taam, is being chased by the Triad, a sort of Oriental-American Mafia...