Word: clumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sprawls on the bed again as he scans the morning papers. Soon he is dictating orders, directives and notes to his black-haired wife, her typewriter propped on a suitcase beside the bed. Before he is dressed, cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find...
...Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation: A test developed in 1947, then only 50% accurate, has now been simplified and refined to 90% accuracy. Basis of the test: for an as yet unknown reason, mixing blood from an arthritic patient with specially treated sheep blood causes the sheep-blood cells to clump...
Washington does not admit that the U.S. has financed Gehlen's activities (the preferred phrase is that he enjoys a "favorable relationship" with U.S. intelligence agencies). Büro Gehlen's headquarters, a clump of houses surrounded by barbed wire, is south of Munich and not far from Dachau. Outside the main offices the Stars & Stripes fly alongside the flag of West Germany. Gehlen himself stays out of sight. He is married and has four children; he loves fast cars and still has a student's fascination for tricky paraphernalia, obsolete codes and invisible inks. The only...
...into a single anti-government front. For the first time, the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress and the South African Colored People's Organization (all Communist infiltrated) sent delegates to sit on the same platform. More important, they sat alongside the Congress of Democrats, a clump of European fellow travelers whose object is to convert the non-white majority of South Africans to Communism...
...should only be 4,000 alive, after three days only four, and after nine days only a single active particle in a ton. If things did not work this way in practice. Dr. Salk argued, it must be because of ''fractional inactivation." This might result from the clumping of virus particles (leaving a broth that was not homogenized). In this way, virus particles could survive the formaldehyde bath if they were in the middle of a clump and protected by dead brethren...