Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Miller's businesses (the Cummins Engine Co., which makes diesels, a bank, a starch and corn-syrup company, plus a 48% interest in a California chain of supermarkets) employ 7,500 people and gross nearly $300 million a year, but there is plenty of Christianity in the executive suite...
"Now our own National Council was first assembled ten years ago, and glued together out of pieces very different in shape and size and function ... I feel that the most important accomplishment of these first years may well have been that the council has stayed together-that the glue has...
The nagging chest pains of angina pectoris are a common symptom of coronary artery disease and may serve as early warning of an impending heart attack. They usually mean that the heart muscle, because of exertion or excitement, is demanding more blood than the disease-narrowed coronary arteries can supply...
The maverick angina, says Dr. Prinzmetal, is often accompanied by palpitation, faintness and fear of death and may be even more severe than classic angina. Seizures last from 45 seconds to more than 20 minutes, and often occur in remarkably regular cycles, perhaps at the same time each day. The...
Sometimes the victim" may convince his doctor that his ailment is painfully real by having an attack in the doctor's office. Then an electrocardiogram taken during the course of his pain will register telltale changes in the electrical activity of the heart. The ailment is often progressive; eleven...