Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This bird-brained little socialite, a fellow traveler like many other Italian bluebloods, would think just what Palmiro Togliatti, alias Ercole Ercoli, alias Mario Correnti, wanted her to think. He was out to conquer an essentially anti-Communist people through bloodless, "democratic" means. In just three years he had worked a political miracle...
...night to gather food, they are as hot as birds. How do their spermatogenic cells withstand this nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they can take off, their wings fill up with blood, and become as efficient in heat dissipation as automobile radiators...
...teacher exodus (350,000 since 1941), the teacher shortage (70,000), the number of substandard teachers (125,000), their generally low quality (one-third didn't go beyond high school), and the low teacher pay (U.S. average: $37 a week). But like most statistics, these were bloodless. The dismaying story of U.S. education came alive only when he told what he had seen, not what he had counted...
...China's bloodless battle of reconstruction," Gruin wrote, "has not been as spectacular or headline-catching as the bloody fight for unity north of the Yangtze. But it has been steady, heroic in its way, progressive, with wonder not so much over what has been done in itself, but over what has been done with so little for doing...
...only victims of G-trouble. As aircraft speeds increase, instruments and radio equipment too will be threatened by mounting Gs. In preparation for military invasion of the ionosphere, the Navy's new centrifuge will torture the robot crews of unmanned, guided missiles to see if their bloodless bodies can stand the punishment...