Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyday Moscow, a slow city, solemn friendly (when its masters permit it) and relatively clean-especially near the center. Dirt increases in direct proportion to distance from the Kremlin. Not even last week's ceremonial ablutions could douse Moscow's habitual smell-a musty and ageless compound of wet plaster, cabbage and inadequately dressed furs. Not even last week's hectic carnival rumpus could exaggerate the Muscovites' devotion to their white-walled, golden-headed city...
...compound the trouble, Washington heard rumbles of a misunderstanding between U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight P. Griswold, administrator of the aid program in Athens, over U.S. methods in Greece. Off to Athens in a hurry went the State Department's able, vigorous Loy Henderson, chief of the Near Eastern and African Affairs office...
...Along "Bent Arm Boulevard," main street of the headquarters compound, Italian MPs replaced Americans, and saluting arms unbent...
...been 23 years since Poet Andre Breton rattled the saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...
...Marching. "This is the new Boy Scout movement-80,000 members already," explained Dr. Sze Hyong Kang, the school director, as we drove into the vast compound. He sat us down in a little room before a table set with sweet, black coffee...