Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exposed in the valley, the bones had been covered with a purple matrix containing an iron compound...
...common language, no common history as a nation, no adequate economic base for its rapidly growing population, now 85 million. Only its Moslem religion unites it-and most of its politicians have no desire to see a theocratic state run by the mullahs. Corruption and instability compound Pakistan's woes. Food shortages are chronic, and foreign-exchange reserves are at an alltime low. Only last month, in East Pakistan's Provincial Assembly, the Deputy Speaker of the House was fatally injured in a parliamentary brawl (TIME...
Setting out on a house-to-house search for the murderers, British troops rounded up more than 1,000 males between the ages of 15 and 30, herded them into a barbed-wire compound, where they were made to sit beneath a searchlight's glare, hands clasped on their heads. The British were angry and rough, and admitted it. In the roundup, at least 150 Greek Cypriots were injured, and three persons died...
Beyond the Fence. In 1935 Rockefeller visited South America on a trip that changed his life. In Venezuela he discovered the abysmal difference between the standard of living inside the U.S. oil compounds and outside. Few U.S. executives knew Spanish; as a result, their companies had little contact with the Latin American world beyond the fence. To Rockefeller the environment needed working on. Home again, he enrolled at the Berlitz School (Rockefeller Center class), studied Spanish two hours a day for three months. Returning to Venezuela as a director of Standard Oil's subsidiary, Creole Petroleum, he hopped from...
When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...