Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wife doctor team, seven Swiss missionary nurses and ten Haitian nurses. The hospital spends $1,000 a month, half from donations, half from patients who can pay (those who cannot are treated anyway). Its beds are always filled; 60 outpatients are treated daily, and there is a waiting line...
...years ago, when he was downed by a bad cold. Some 650 young Harrovians last week serenaded him as is the custom, once again brought a proud smile to Sir Winston's face as they sang the Latin words of May Fortune Stay with the House, including the line, "Churchill's name shall win again...
...along the length of the nerve. When a nerve is stimulated, a chemical called acetylcholine is released within the nerve. It combines with the receptor protein, causing an interchange of sodium and potassium ions. The ions in turn trigger release of more acetylcholine a bit farther along the line, letting the current advance. To turn off the signal, an enzyme, cholinesterase, is released that instantly destroys the acetylcholine in the nerve...
...will win!" chanted 4,600 teachers as they hit the picket line last week in New York City. Circling 267 schools, they crippled junior highs, left students staring at blank blackboards in unattended classrooms (surprisingly little disorder resulted). Cried happy kids: "Hold that line!" The first teachers' strike in the city's history was called by the United Federation of Teachers, A.F.L.-C.I.O., which claims one-quarter of the 39,000 teachers in the nation's biggest urban public school system. The union had solid demands, from sick pay to duty-free lunch periods, but most...
...these and other scenes, every line was taken from the speaker's actual addresses or writings, thus turning the sequences into stark, strident, sometimes awkward exchanges of punch lines rather than into coherent dialogues. But punchy they were, as when Clemenceau (Eric Berry) delivered his famous judgment on Wilson (Harry Townes): "God gave us his Ten Commandments; we broke them. Wilson gave us his Fourteen Points; we shall see." On the whole, the note of authenticity was worth the price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough...