Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After only ten weeks of instruction, the students go abroad for ten weeks to live with foreign families. They continue their intensive study-this time with more conventional teaching of grammar-under the supervision of an American professor. Indeed, as Rassias explained to TIME Correspondent David Wood, getting students overseas is a major goal of the program. "We're gonna take these kids and dynamite some raw language into them," he said with typical gusto. "Then they're gonna blast out of here and smash into France, and they're gonna destroy everybody with how well they...
...dragging wood from the mainland...
...each intermission, the Wagnerians strolling about the Festspielhaus grounds are summoned by musicians who stand on a balcony and play a theme from the upcoming action. The crowd clambers across the rough floor boards, seats itself on the hard, wood seats-decreed by Wagner for the sake of sound. Physically nothing has changed in the Festspielhaus auditorium since Wagner designed it, and its acoustics are among the best in the world. The old man would probably relish the scene in 1976: the full house, the well-dressed crowd, the impresarios gathered from several continents. As for Chéreau...
...stone" and amputations. With no anaesthesia, the best surgeons were the ones who could cut, hack and saw most rapidly, aided by the strongest assistants to hold the patient down. Herbs and plants were extensively used in treatment. Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay prescribed a paste of wood lice, while Cotton Mather-who together with Zabdiel Boylston brought inoculation to the colonies in 1721 to prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century...
...Arab-owned: the Royal Kensington, the Park Tower and the fabled Dorchester have all been bought by Middle Eastern investors-the Dorchester for a cool $15.9 million. For those who are bothered by a touch of London tummy, help awaits at expensive Wellington Hospital in St. John's Wood, where the amenities include Arab interpreters and closed-circuit TV featuring Arab-language movies made in Cairo...