Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted with extreme gratification that you did not join hands with the large majority of the American press and even some members of Congress in the condemnation of the U.S. Marine Corps on account of the Parris Island tragedy [April 23]. Perhaps these forgetful individuals do not remember the overflowing volume of praise that was heaped upon this heroic organization during World War II and Korea...
...other hand, those who have experienced the same problems and appreciate someone else's reaction to them will find the book a reassuring and helpful account of one woman's search for inner security...
...obviously approved by others in the leadership) which snatched the rug out from under Nikita's big feet. Mikoyan attacked Stalin's Short Course of the History of the Party, for years the ideological basis of all such Communists as Khrushchev. He dismissed Stalin's phony account of the civil war and talked of "party leaders of that time who were wrongly declared to have been enemies of the people." Adding insult to injury, Mikoyan named Khrushchev's liquidated predecessor Kossior as one such and asserted, to the sound of laughter, that "Ukrainian historians will...
...made electrocardiograms of each person. The scientists' findings, not altogether surprising: ¶ In both man and woman the normal heart rate of 70 per minute soars to 170 a minute. The rate is apt to be higher in the man. The physical activity alone is not enough to account for this high acceleration of heartbeat; emotion does the rest. ¶ The breathing rate, normally 15 to 18 a minute, triples. As a result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly. This may explain the occasional rigidity of the arm and leg muscles -previously noted...
...poor. Equip its army with inadequate and defective weapons and have its soldiers humiliatingly defeated in the field. Result: revolution. So goes the very recent history of Egypt, and so goes the theme of this first novel by Author Maarten Schiemer. The Cry of the Kite is a fictionalized account of how fat Farouk's restive Egypt became the spitfire Egypt of Soldier Gamal Abdel Nasser...