Word: acacia
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...startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist...
...acacia-shaded street beneath my window in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits echoes the cymbal-clashing and drumbeats of a parade of Chinese dancers noisily celebrating the i yoth birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. In the hotel lobby a Chinese bride & groom have just posed for wedding pictures in the Chinese fashion: five austere black-gowned male relatives held the center of the portrait; the pretty bride in her white gown and the groom in his new black suit and wing collar were in the background...
...Periston," a German-concocted synthetic chemical, was mixed with water and used by the Nazis as a blood plasma substitute. Periston resembles gelatin and gum acacia (sometimes used for the same purpose) but is safer than either - so say the Germans, who gave more than 200,000 treatments "with practically no reactions...
...Yale's Laboratory of Physiology, Dr. de Rezende developed a simpler glue: a solution of gum acacia (fortified with vitamin B). But despite this glue, he noted that a severed nerve tends to retract both ways so that connection of the ends is still difficult. This tension can be avoided, Dr. de Rezende found, by inserting a nerve graft between the severed ends. On the legs of monkeys, rabbits and dogs he performed some 60 nerve-grafting operations, taking his grafts from dead animals of the same species. Nearly half his operations he termed successful: the animals regained good...
...generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted looked like Texas-a Texas with blue eucalyptus and mauve acacia trees, sun-bleached to pastel colors...