Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between the Dutch and the Indonesian Nationalists. In Batavia, the U.N. Commission for Indonesia announced a cease-fire agreement. Worn down by Nationalist guerrilla fighting and worried by Communist advances in Asia, the Dutch had finally given in to the stern resolution of the Security Council, condemning their "police action" last year...
...some observers took the Red peace feelers, together with the Soviet backdown at Berlin, as a symptom of a general Red retrenchment in Europe, supposedly designed to free the Reds for allout action in Asia. Porphyrogenis himself seemed to support this view. "The atmosphere of appeasement," he said, "that has developed in recent weeks on the European scene makes peace [in Greece] seem possible...
...shakes each bottle, thus precipitating the sediment onto the cork. Five or more years after the date of vintage, the bottle is recorked for shipment. Speedup methods have long been used by American companies. The trick consists largely in maintaining vat temperature at 70° F., thereby stimulating the action of tiny, funguslike organisms known as saccharomycetes, which cause fermentation...
Last week the Collentine killing was still unsolved, but Johnson's report had run to 50 hard-hitting articles. It had also stirred up three official police investigations and a demand for legislative action to cut down crime on the waterfront. But Johnson and the Sun were still far from being ready to sit down: there was more to come...
Scientists have long known that there is some electrical activity in the body, and that a change in the normal action may be a warning of disease. The knowledge has been used to diagnose ailments of the heart (by electrocardiograph) and of the brain (by electroencephalograph). Could the same principle be applied to cancer...