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Word: compounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived for 2½ years in the company of 1,500 other interned civilians, most of them British and American missionaries or traders. Out of his wartime experience, Gilkey, now a professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has distilled a fascinating memoir called Shantung Compound (Harper & Row; $4.95) that is both a vivid diary of prison life and a theologian's mature reflection on the condition of man in times of stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Parable from Prison | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

Mademoiselle is an exquisitely photographed flop in which three flamboyant talents compound each other's mistakes. Trying an English-language drama overladen with artsy Continental flavor, Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) miscasts Jeanne Moreau, an actress far too frost-free to catch the temper of a frustrated spinster. She brings every subconscious drive boiling to the surface, and her roaring heterosexual readiness makes a parody of the screenplay by France's poet of perversion, Jean Genet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Psychodrama | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...Carmela's death. According to Boyer, the tipster was Marge Farber. Suspicion focused on succinylcholine chloride, a muscle relaxant commonly used by anesthesiologists. The drug is injected into patients to depress breathing temporarily during some operations, but an overdose can kill within ten minutes-and traces of the compound disappear from the body almost immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Neighbors in Fox Run | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...painstaking detective work. Gilman imported six rabbits to his farm, injected them with lethal doses of succinylcholine chloride, buried them (one with embalming fluid), and a month later disinterred the bodies. Sure enough, he reported, autopsies revealed telltale traces of the drug's components, though not of the compound itself. As a result, Gilman had Carmela's body exhumed and a four-month analysis performed on vital organs. Said Gilman: "What we found was enough to make us exhume Colonel Farber's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Neighbors in Fox Run | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...basic Hindi vocabulary, which she compiled by comparing lists of words most commonly used in the marketplace and household. At its opening in 1953, Literacy Village was one-half a bungalow in Allahabad, a few workers, and a few booklets within the vocabulary range. Today, it is a compound of 20 brick buildings on a country road outside Lucknow, with a courtyard, an ashram for prayer, and a well-worked-out philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Abroad: India's Literacy Lady | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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