Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agar's political study takes its impetus from the Revolution and the formation of the Constitution (which he interprets politically as Beard does economically). He then goes on to trace the development of a second, "unwritten" constitution-a compound of political compromises and "bargains" which withstood every problem of national life in the nineteenth century but one, the Civil...
Furthermore, by latest census, the Fon has only 110 wives, not 600.* Forty-four of them are very old ladies whom he inherited from his predecessor. All of them, the Fon explained, lead useful and happy lives, and they are all free to leave the compound. Often the older wives themselves ask the Fon to take new wives to help with the housework. The U.N. investigators found no case where a girl had been forced into marriage. The wives of the aged Fon had only one regret: he was too old to sire any more children...
...allies in defense of a common way of life, seemed to be heading down diverging roads in Asia; the Chinese Communists, after a leisurely four days, had accepted Britain's recognition; by harshly treating its consular officials, they had made sure of U.S. hostility. To compound these complications, the Russians reached across Communist China last week to extend official recognition to the Communist rebels of Ho Chi Minh in French Indo-China...
...these ingredients, and probably others, will be arranged advantageously around the uranium, which will act as a detonator. The hydrogen isotopes are thin gases and hard to package, so they will probably be used in the form of chemical compounds. Lithium hydride, which may combine two desirable ingredients (lithium and tritium) in a single compound, would be handy for this purpose. Other tricks will be used to pack more hydrogen isotopes closely around the uranium...
...four Chinese Communist officials and their police escort were just 50 minutes late in keeping the appointment. Shortly before 10 o'clock one morning last week, they took possession of the office of U.S. Consul General O. Edmund Clubb in the spacious U.S. legation compound in Peking, precisely as they had said they would, seven days earlier...