Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health by the color of his coat. Yet putting together what is known indicates that the new Russian regime may keep its peoples from rising, but cannot satisfy their needs (see below); and the new China is having such internal upheaval that its leaders are hard put to combat...
...Nausea & DTs. To combat nausea and vomiting-whether from heaving seas, bumpy airplanes, pregnancy, kidney disease, cancer or heavy X-ray treatment-chlorpromazine seems far superior to other drugs. It is the only one that helps victims of dysautonomia (TIME, June 7), where the cause of vomiting is deep in the nervous system. It is credited with saving several lives in especially stubborn cases of vomiting during pregnancy or from kidney disease. And chlorpromazine seems to be the answer in many cases of persistent hiccuping...
...renaissance. The present council will disband in May 1956, when the 2,500 years will be up, and U Nu is hoping for the upsurge. Said he recently: "The growing [Marxist] challenge to Buddhism has not effectively been met. . . The Buddhist organization we are going to have will combat these challenges not only in the intellectual field but if need be in the physical field as well...
...Capa, who spoke five languages, was once asked which language he "thought" in. After mulling over the question, Capa answered: "I think in pictures." Most of the pictures Capa thought in were of war. As a LIFE staffer in World War II, Capa earned a reputation as the best combat photographer in the world. Although he hated war ("It is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany...
...plane and himself, flying faster and higher than was ordered, often bewildering fellow pilots by his single-minded zeal. He repeatedly badgered his superiors to send him to Korea. Once there, he looked for extra tours of duty, unlike his comrades had little fear of being killed in combat. A mission was a personal challenge. Functioning best when allowed some leeway from standard procedure, the ace often spotted MIGs long before his squadron-mates, was always willing to take risks for a shot at the opponent...