Word: thread
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Stephens delivered the boy baby by Caesarean section. It took but a minute for him to tie off the Fallopian tubes with surgical thread, so that Mrs. Gonzales would not become pregnant again. Dr-Stephens closed the peritoneum (the membrane lining the abdominal cavity...
...read with much interest your Oct. 30 article concerning . . . the Omar Khayyam controversy . . . Even if, in the "stringing of Oriental pearls on an English thread," Edward FitzGerald has taken extraordinary liberties (including some pearls of his own, such as "The Moving Finger Writes"), I feel he did such a superb job that his work will survive all criticism...
...annually [the gross at the time] at a profit of 1½? on the dollar, is an achievement one may well be proud of." He granted that many of A & P's actions, "standing alone, are devoid of wrongful character." But he found that Acco was the "rotten thread" that gave A & P's other operations "a polluted colored light...
...Fanatics. Orwell's purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
...love is a steady thread through this tapestry of change. It is for a confidence man, named Bonser, a loud and promiscuous swindler with a flair for spending money, a blackguard whose interest in Tabitha lies squarely in her pocketbook. He seduces Tabitha and fails to marry her, yet he appears again and again through her marriage and divorce to bounce her on his knee and ask for a pound or two. She gives him the money and more than that, for Bonser is Tabitha's personal revolt, and her only consistent pleasure...