Word: attached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys...
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...Bevan promptly announced that he would proceed to negotiate with other medical societies (e.g., the Royal College of Physicians). If he could negotiate satisfactory terms, many a doctor would come into the plan, B.M.A. or no B.M.A. Said the London Times: "If it [ B.M.A. ] persists in refusing to attach as much importance to the general election of 1945 as it does to the doctors' ballot of 1946, it may well find that ... it will have deprived both itself and Parliament of any chance of reaching a compromise. In such a situation, though the conflict might be protracted, it cannot...
...Missouri-born Clarence Streit (rhymes with bright), the idea of a federation of free peoples is both a vision and a career. His favorite citation of its workability: the U.S., which was once a league of sovereign states. As a young A.E.F. veteran and U.S. attaché at Versailles, Streit saw the kind of peacemaking that followed World War I. As a New York Times correspondent at Geneva (1929-39), he saw the kind of peace-keeping that preceded World War II. His book Union Now urged a modified national sovereignty, an international federation of democracies. To promote the ideal...
With the Kaiser-Liberty ship bonanza, the government went into the shipping business full time. It was a temptation at the outset to attach the Merchant Marine training program, already under government control, to an expanded Merchant fleet, constructed under government expense, in a nationalized Merchant Navy along the lines of the British scheme. The fearsome prospect of financing a gigantic post-war merchant marine with pre-war deficit-subsidy black magic was like nursing an infant until it was in long pants. The problem of training personnel, of maintaining close supervision over shipping movements and dispositions, would have been...