Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood, the passion, the malaise of the country seemed to leave the Administration-and the President-weary. On Thursday, Nixon took off for a weekend in Florida, where welcoming crowds at Homestead Air Force Base and the Key Biscayne presidential compound cheered him and cheered him up. Later, a group of University of Miami students appeared to chant "All we are saying is give peace a chance." Nixon claims that his Cambodian strategy is doing nothing less. Whatever the military progress, however, the price being paid at home is high...
When Czechoslovakia last week celebrated the anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany, it found itself occupied once again-by the country that "liberated" it in 1945. To compound its embarrassment, Czechoslovakia had to play host to the man who was ultimately responsible for ordering Russian invaders into the country in 1968: Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...manufacturer of the other major herbicide used on Harvard's lawns states that the fertilizer mix (containing the compound polychlordicyclopentadiene) is "toxic to fish and wildlife." The label warns that birds and small children may be harmed for brief periods after the mix is applied...
...TURNS out that the balsam fir used to make the paper towels produce a compound very similar to the bug's juvenile hormone. But unlike the silkworm hormone, it hits only a single family of bugs. If nature can provide such highly specific insecticides through evolution, Williams argues, man should be able to develop some himself...
...saying AMERICAN PHANTOMS KILL ARAB CHILDREN. Finally a mob of nearly 1,000 burned the U.S. Information Service library, while another crowd of 800 roared on to the U.S. embassy. Amman police and soldiers were nowhere to be seen. Brushing past six Bedouin guards, the crowd stormed the embassy compound, burned four official cars and replaced the American flag with the green, black and red emblem of Palestine. As a parting gesture, the demonstrators ripped the Seal of the U.S. from the embassy's wall, paraded it through Amman, then trampled on it and smashed...