Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next. P.W.s turned their backs, stamped their feet, sang Nationalist-songs. One burst a pimple on his face and flicked its contents at the explainers. Another listened for a while, then remarked contemptuously: "The others are waiting for me to sit in on a mah-jongg game in the compound . . . Try not to waste any more of my time." In Tent 7, a stocky Chinese, with Nationalist emblems sewn on his blouse, faced three Communists, sweating and fidgety in green-brown wool uniforms. This is what was said...
...cooperation and its suspiciousness of personal preeminence and self-assertion . . . A few years ago, a hostile biographer . . . made it a chief part of her indictment of Freud that he actually believed that his ideas were right, that he sought to make them prevail, that he did not gracefully compound his differences with the men who modified his theories. Our culture would seem to have changed since the days when schoolchildren were taught that for Columbus to say, 'Sail on! Sail on!' was brave and fine, not ill-natured and undemocratic...
...eating bread for breakfast instead of rice, but are now returning to rice, claiming that bread did not fill them. Tokyo's black-market rice prices are almost double last year's. Alarmed, the ministry announced plans to speed up home production of artificial rice, a compound of wheat, starch and 10% natural rice. The Minister of Agriculture's wife said that she had secretly fed her husband artificial rice for two months, and "he never knew the difference...
...Boston doctors reported in the A.M.A. Journal that a drug known as Compound 2601-A is the best thing they have found for controlling the nausea which often follows the taking of drugs, and occurs regularly in such disorders as cancer, ear inflammation and uremia. Also, 2601-A straightens out drinkers who have too violent a reaction from the combination of alcohol and disulfiram (Antabuse...
...P.W.s who do not want to go home. Twenty-four voices rose in unison from the trucks, and the refrain of the Communist Internationale echoed down the narrow valley: "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation, arise, ye wretched of the earth." Just as the trucks rolled into the barbed-wire compound, they shouted the final line: "The International Soviet will free the human race." Then they raised clenched fists in the Communist salute...