Word: alterity
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...broken five records of their own and led 45-43. After two legs, Harvard was half a pool length behind. Phil Chase made up half the distance with a 50.1 split, and Shrout pulled it out for a final 3:21.0 clocking, a freshman record. Chase, Steve Bulloch, Peter Alter, and Shrout were individual freshman winners...
...missile crisis. As gold rose, the value of paper money decreased. The dollar declined on markets in Germany and Switzerland, and Britain's beleaguered pound fell fractionally. This week the Bank of France was expected to move to ease tension on the gold markets-but that would not alter the long-term French determination to put pressure...
...DeBakey, who developed the operation and has already done it 6,500 times, the procedure was routine. But alter he made a 6-in. incision through the duke's lean abdominal wall, the surgeon discovered that the aneurysm was even bigger than expected. 'The size of a small cantaloupe or large grapefruit," he reported. Instead of a simple balloon shape with a neat "stalk," it was "fusiform," with its base extending along the aorta. Worse, the wall of the aorta had eroded until it was on the point of rupturing...
...powers. It is no wonder that, contrary to Buddhist teachings, violence erupted in this atmosphere of frustration and fear. We fail to see that Asiatics dislike our disregard for their ancient cultures. Expecting them to adopt our attitudes and political institutions can only lead to regression, which may violently alter the course of history...
...France and the Plantagenets of England. Her family had held land near their pinnacled greystone house of Renishaw since 1301. She had a miserable childhood, for her Victorian father disapproved of everything, from her friendship with a peacock to the shape of her nose, which he tried to alter with an iron clamp...