Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief of Peking's departing delegation, how the talks had gone, he replied, "Very good." Obviously, the opposite was true. During their last week in Moscow, while Western negotiators were feted and nattered, a kind of Great Wall surrounded the unwelcome visitors from Peking. From their isolated compound on Moscow's Lenin Hills, the Red Chinese delegates ventured out only in curtained black Chaika limousines for the short drive to Peking's embassy; on alternate days they met with a Soviet delegation, obviously to no effect...
...their riskiest cases for safekeeping, the Germans had unwittingly hand-picked a team of escape artists. The infectious combination of earnest British perfidy and unscrupulous Yankee brashness lets the Nazis realize that something is going on under their noses, but with all the rowdy hubba-hubba that fills the compound, they do not guess that it is going on under their feet as well. Platoons of men are down in the dark earth burrowing a tunnel toward the surrounding forest. Brains of the operation is Big X (Richard Attenborough), a leader of past breakouts in other camps; among his staff...
...compound will undergo extensive WHO tests, and if the new chemical is indeed everything that is claimed, snail eradication can begin in earnest. And none too soon. "Today," warns the British medical journal Lancet, "schistosomiasis threatens to replace malaria as a major scourge of mankind...
...kicked and beat him till blood gushed from his wounds. A day later, Negro youngsters again moved down the street in ones and twos, carrying tiny American flags (it was Flag Day). They, too, were blocked by police, relieved of their flags, and carried off to a hog-wire compound...
...operation in a converted hen house, the mission has expanded but otherwise changed little. At the river landing there are only pirogues, crude dugout canoes, the one type of river ambulance Schweitzer will use. ("Brancardier! Brancardier!" [stretcher bearer] the oarsmen cry when they arrive with an emergency.) The hospital compound is without telephone, running water or refrigeration, has electricity only in the main building, which houses the tiny, antiquated operating theater. Sterilization is carried out in an outdoor lean-to and the only toilet is an outhouse for the use of the foreign staff...