Word: without
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...extent of the menace is undetermined, but it nevertheless exists. Says Dr. McDermott: "We can continue to breathe what is very probably toxic air on the premise that it is an unavoidable byproduct of our wonderful society and that, on balance, life is pleasanter with the polluted air than without it. Or we can choose to have our wonderful society and clean...
...Venezuela and the Middle East oil producing countries aroused by recent price cuts in crude by major oil companies. Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran formed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to present a united front in dealing with oil companies, want to ban price cuts without prior consultation with producing nations...
...A.F.L.C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, claimed a notable victory, saying: "The Pennsylvania Railroad has been dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century." But the Pennsylvania's Chairman James M. Symes was closer to the truth: "Quill finally made an agreement he could have had without a strike." All the points in the settlement were offered by the road before the walkout; the argument was mainly over the wording...
...with their bodily ills. Community status came in time; with it came Barker's discovery that the Zulu's ritual way of thinking made medicine an exercise in etiquette as well as a practical science. No visit to a tribal chief, healthy or not, was complete without an injection or, at the least, the prescription of a placebo. On house calls, a patient remained untended, no matter how ill, until the end of a lengthy dialogue of familial greetings ("Are you all well at your place?" "Yes, we are well; we ask after your home and your people...
...such things, Powell's Music of Time is brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times. Nothing like Powell's enterprise has been seen in English letters since Dickens and Trollope went bashing out their three-decker serials. His talents are rare without being exotic. He is neither a visionary nor a voyeur, but an observer-civil, ironic, amused, curious. By now, he seems to know his characters so well that he has developed a sort of courtesy toward them. Critic Pritchett has warned him of this danger-of the "risk that his characters...