Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blood Pressure. Three weeks ago Chiang had appointed as Premier Sun Fo, son of the great Sun Yatsen. Sun Fo last week was recovering from a leg operation and suffering from high blood pressure. He had not slept for nights. He had invited leader after leader to serve in his cabinet. None wanted to share the responsibility of continuing the war. After Paul Hoffman's Shanghai press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Sun Fo went to Chiang with the proposal that the new cabinet be given Chiang's permission to seek a deal with the Communists that would...
When he emerged from his interview with the Gimo, Sun Fo's blood pressure hit 200. In a padded blue gown he hobbled around his study and roared at an American visitor: "You are fighting a cold war against Communists throughout the world, yet in China your policy appears aimed at hastening our government's disintegration. It seems we aren't collapsing fast enough to suit your taste...
...matter wevver they knows or not?" queried a blood-stained London butcher. "If yer finds yer 'usband squeamish, don't tell 'im, that...
...When He's Down. At this point the other enemies of promise smell blood and close in. While Mr. Shelleyblake is struggling to write the book that he is in fact incapable of writing, he gets a warm note from "Mr. Vampire," a literary editor: "I was so interested to meet you the other night . . . [I have been] looking for someone to [review] the Nonesuch Boswell, and your name cropped up." Mr. Shelleyblake is flattered, and relieved to lay aside his dreadful novel; and his review is enjoyed by all. Unfortunately, his new novel, when at last it appears...
...chemical substances found in the body and in plants, that act like catalysts (e.g., pepsin in the stomach). Previously, he had isolated eight of eleven enzymes that cause fermentation, then devoted his time to studying just one of them, an enzyme he called zymohexase. He found that the blood of rats with cancer contains more zymohexase than that of normal rats, and that the larger the tumor, the greater the amount of the enzyme...