Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after working four hours without food, Kou went to stand in line at the cook shack for his twice-a-day bowl of rice. Wong was lying in a heap on the ground, moaning. The section foreman was shouting "Get up!" and punctuating each command with a kick in the belly. Wong tried to rise but could not. On his field telephone, the foreman summoned seven members of Mao's militia-big, well-fed northern men chosen because their ignorance of the Kwangtung dialect isolates them from the peasants they bully...
Although he has a sizable cut of Presley's estimated $2,000,000 a year income, Parker still clings to his carny ways. Once when Elvis appeared at Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Hollywood friends found Manager Parker near the main gate, selling Presley-autographed photos. His explanation: "Don't you ever get so big you won't sell pictures." He has sold other things, too, at Presley performances. Bucking custom, he makes newsmen pay for their own tickets, seldom passes out freebees even to close business associates, has been known to peddle war-surplus binoculars...
Brasilia, built in haste and dedicated in confusion, was now facing the morning after. The air conditioning in the bowl-and-dome-shaped Congress would not work; phones and elevators were out of order; only four ministry buildings were ready for occupancy. Government press headquarters had not a single typewriter; high officials tried to make do without files, without secretaries or messenger boys...
...Goldfish Bowl. Minister Douglas (himself married for eight years) came across surprisingly few complaints about the two stock ministerial miseries: low salaries and goldfish-bowl living. On the other hand, one MW problem he did not expect to find with such frequency is the wife's own need for pastoral counseling...
...eggs, fertilized in a finger bowl with five drops of sand-dollar sperm, were put into the individual compartments of a plastic ice-cube tray (300 eggs to a "cube"), and kept in sea water. As they grew, Dr. Karnofsky added various concentrations of drugs known to be useful in treating cancer and noted the kind and degree of their effects. Against this base line, he could test hitherto untried substances and estimate their probable usefulness against cancer. The method will not replace the testing of drugs in animals, Dr. Karnofsky told the American Association for Cancer Research, but will...