Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese compounds, the anti-Reds manage to keep U.S., U.N. and Nationalist Chinese flags flying. At the entrance to Compound 86 there is a sign in Chinese characters: "Kill! Kill! Mao Tse-tung, the Russian puppet...
...camp's worst riots took place last fall. In mid-September the prisoners in one compound went on a rampage and drove their guards from the enclosure. Before the guards could be sent back in at bayonet point and behind a barrage of concussion grenades, the Communists dragged one suspected renegade to the fence, pulled out his tongue, cut it off with tin shears, then beat him to death...
...Each compound," says one high-ranking officer, "seethes with intrigue-half figuring ways to escape, the rest pressure groups fighting each other. Killings? Plenty of them. The victims are usually beaten to death with tent poles." So far, on Beggars' Island, some 30 or 40 prisoners have been murdered by their fellows, and the beatings are innumerable. In one night last week, in one compound alone, there were seven beatings. Some of these fights can be traced to competition for homosexual favors, but most are battles be tween Communists and antiCommunists. Some 13,000 Chinese and 6,000 North...
...Czech party since he was 18, he made a fine hatchetman-unmoved by compassion, unhampered by principle, unburdened with personal loyalties. Unlike so many Czech politicos who fled to London in World War II, he went to Moscow. There he lived for six years in a special compound reserved for the elite among foreign Communists. He became a better Muscovite than a Czech, which made him a fine teammate for another graduate of the special compound, Klement Gottwald...
Because of a shortage of corncobs,which are needed to make furfural (a chemical compound) for defense products ranging from synthetic rubber to nylon, OPS junked cob controls last week, hoping that a higher price will bring more on the market. Other items recently exempted from control: wooden haircurlers, glass ice cubes, toy bones for dogs, incense burners, wigs and toupees...