Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PUBLIC OPINION, said Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, "is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs." If Peel had such low regard for public opinion, it is easy to imagine how he would have felt about "world opinion." He would have denied that any such thing existed, or, if it did exist, that it had any business interfering with the sovereign actions of the British Empire...
...compound the mystery came news that another unhappy Pole had made his way to the West earlier in the month. Using a diplomatic passport to pass through East German border guards, 19-year-old Marek Radomski appeared at West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie on May 5, told the American MPs on duty that he was "sick of the miserable life under Communism." The young defector's father is an attaché in Poland's embassy in East Berlin and is rumored to be chief of Polish intelligence in all East Germany...
Mortar and howitzer shells crunched into military compounds, while Viet Cong riflemen, clad only in khaki shorts, swept into the heart of the village. Setting up machine guns and 57-mm. recoilless rifles on an open helicopter pad, they slashed at the barracks, mess halls and headquarters of the Songbe garrison. Said one American survivor: "It looked like the Fourth of July." Five Communists slipped through the perimeter beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded...
...stuff so far only on rats, a procedure that is far from a demonstration that a drug is suitable for humans. Dr. Vallowe refused to identify his weed, though drug companies tried to persuade him to do so. What he did say was that in his rats the compound did not work, as estrogens do, by suppressing ovulation. If this is correct, he may be a bit closer to proving that nature does know best...
Miles is even bringing change to its basic product, Alka-Seltzer-an efferescent antacid compound of aspirin, bicarb of soda, citric acid and mono-calcium phosphate. It has added to its traditional blue-labeled bottle handy tinfoil packs of Alka-Seltzer that can fit into pocket or purse, is test-marketing ginger-and citrus-flavored versions of the tablet. To convince people that they do not have to drink a gallon of water with Alka-Seltzer, the company is also suggesting in its ads that they adopt the habit of downing Alka-Seltzer "on the rocks," with only a touch...