Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...some cases the Pill raises an unstable blood pressure so abruptly and severely as to cause a blowout in a brain artery-the hemorrhagic type of stroke. Another vascular disturbance is the migraine headache, which results from dilation of peripheral arteries in the head. Any woman who has ever had migraines is likely to find that they strike more often and more severely after she goes on the Pill. Others may suffer their first, alarming and hideously painful migraine when taking the Pill. Among other "contraindications," as doctors call them, are diabetes, liver disease, breast cancer and possibly rheumatoid arthritis...
...Scribbler's Club voted in a Flash to become outraged Supporters of smooth Operations, modern Systems, and rigid Control. They loudly protested a perfidious and entirely unjustified Stroke of Nature. They ranted, they raved, they marched and they sat until the once Obscure became so Prominent the Wise Teachers were hard pressed to disregard completely the voluble Protestations raining down from every Side and Top and Bottom...
...Middle Americans will love the story, but will be irked as hell by that ply-woody cover interpretation by Giuliani. What a pleasing stroke of genius it would have been had you used their alltime favorite, Norman Rockwell...
Even in his own day, Bruegel must have been considered a superb technician, capable of representing anything. Foreground details exist down to the last bramble on a bush, while in the distance a minuscule brush stroke may distinctly show a man walking or working underneath a tree. Bruegel began with ships' timbers of seasoned oak. He set the planks edge to edge, smoothed them, and then brushed on a white gesso base. He drew his composition on the gesso in gray chalk. That done, he would start painting in egg tempera, thinly and swiftly. His first layers of color...
Then the Huskies won their first, and last, event the back stroke. Harvard's top man. Kobick, was held out, and though John Burris did the best time of his career, he couldn't quite catch the opponent's Ted Brindamore and Pat Hoffman, both of whom are fairly good in the stroke. Barris's 2:10.0 was less than a second slower than the winner...