Word: annexation
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...frightened as we should have been. But that's not the fault of the movie. Starring Peter Lorrie, it deals with certain untoward incidents that occur when a bald sadist grafts a dead murderer's hands onto the wrists of a managled musician whose wife the sadist purposes to annex. Pretty? After the operation the musician (ably played by Colin Clive) is surprised to find his repertoire more or less limited to chopsticks, but he doesn't really catch on to what they've been doing to him until he develops an uncontrollable penchant for flicking pen-knives at people...
When the Spanish and Portuguese South American Empires broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred...
...exceeded its authority in marketing more than a reasonable surplus of its power (TIME, March 4), one amendment authorized TVA to generate power at all dams, transmit and market such power. Other amendments permitted the Authority to up its capitalization from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, annex the Cumberland River & basin to its domain...
...distinctly minor but nevertheless appropriate innovation is the University's decision to change the name of Robinson Hall Annex to Hunt Hall. For years the old Fogg Museum bore the former top-heavy title, and it is quite fitting that the quarters of the School of City Planning should honor the man whose name is one of the watchwords of American architecture...
Upon personal presentation of their Bursar's cards, Harvard students may obtain tickets today at Robinson Hall Annex...