Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked the bill's basic philosophy, argued that it would compound the troubles it was designed to correct: "It would require the Government, in effect, to become an unwanted participant at every bargaining table . . . involve the Government in the free process of our economic system to a degree unprecedented in peacetime...
...jubilant, although the British were leaving at last. To him, the violence and disunity of India were a personal affront. To Gandhi, ahimsa (nonviolence) is the first principle of life, and satyagraha (soul force, or conquering through love), the only proper way of life. In the whitewashed, DDT-ed compound which serves him as headquarters, Gandhi licked his soul wounds: "I feel [India's violence] is just an indication," he told his followers, "that as we are throwing off the foreign yoke, all the dirt and froth is coming to the surface. When the Ganges is in flood...
...Hormones. Drs. Konrad Dobriner and Cornelius P. Rhoads of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital reported progress on Memorial's pet project-the search for the long-suspected link between hormones and cancer. After five years of extracting and peering, the doctors recently isolated a new hormonelike substance, called "Compound 18," that appears in the urine of almost all cancer patients, and almost never in normal urine. "18" may some day prove helpful in the detection of hidden internal cancer. One trouble is that 18 sometimes turns up in connection with various noncancerous conditions, such as high blood pressure...
...clearly definable. Rubinstein is at his best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...
...service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican Republic has no ideology: he is no Fascist in the European sense. He is more a compound of the Oriental despot and the more corrupt of U.S. city bosses: from seizure, framed elections and the other activities of dictatorship, he and his henchmen have profited in the millions...