Word: brainwashed
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...Hyden, "to prove that the RNA and enzyme changes are followed by an increased suggestibility in man. A defined change of functionally important substances in the brain could be used for conditioning a whole population." A police state government, he theorizes, could add such substances to tap water and brainwash the whole population at once...
...bosses, Merchán in Viotá, Varela in Sumapaz, are as much masters of their lands as any feudal lord. They fly a hammer-and-sickle flag, liquidate or banish dissenters, brainwash the populace with dinning P.A. systems, maintain their own efficient militia backed by arsenals that include machine guns and mortars. They even collect their own taxes, currently set at 10% of harvests...
...because she tries to buy only the pants of a pair of pajamas and he only the top. One of Wilder's current and so far unused openers : the Russians kidnap a famous American actress, who might be Marilyn Monroe, in West Berlin; they take her away to brainwash her, but she beats them because she has no brain to wash. Another: a high-ranking Communist defects to the West, leaving his wife and three children behind in Russia. When they are liquidated, he goes back: he was not a defector at all, but merely wanted...
...quoted just about finished me. We have enough solid corn without the Administration deliberately choking us with more. If this kind of approach is tried on me (I always pay my taxes on time), the IRS can go to hell, and I will plead insanity from incessant and uncontrolled brainwash technique. The thought that they even entertained the idea is disgusting...
Washington's Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta turned up as a guest traveloguist at the Woman's National Democratic Club, startled the ladies with a tale of a "birth house" she saw in Russia in 1953. Perle's theory: the Soviets brainwash expectant mothers to achieve painless childbirth. In the maternity center she had observed 20 women, "none in pain. They took one or two deep breaths and the child was born." Added Perle: "They used the same brainwash for the mothers that they used for the war prisoners and soldiers [see SCIENCE...