Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take part in Yalta's Far Eastern discussions. His memoirs for late 1944 show his curt dismissal of the importance of China. "This American obsession," he wrote. "That China is one of the world's four great powers is an absolute farce." At Yalta Churchill was content to let Roosevelt and Stalin play out the farce by themselves...
...content with attacks upon the spirit of the day, Gundelfinger also assaulted the spirits in a section entitled "The 18th Amendment and Football," "Surely form the Elevens of our several hundred colleges we could select at least one Eleven whose each and every member would be a teetotaler, and one whose each and every member uses booze and lots...
...present policy of deemphasis might be understandable if speech instruction were merely a technical matter, devoid of intellectual content and purpose. But speech training is more than technique. Students enrolled in "English Q: Public Speaking; Principles and Practice," for instance, often spend more time researching speeches than they do for papers in other courses. If written expression merits a required course and forty section men, surely public speaking deserves at least encouragement...
...contestants, effect a de facto ceasefire, and kill the military potential of the Formosa forces. Dulles indicated that if the Reds would talk reasonably, he might be willing to discuss the coastal islands, but that an attack on Formosa would mean war. With that Eden had to be content...
Results with Chlorpromazine. Injections of chlorpromazine worked wonders. Men and women who had been continuously manic for a year or more quieted down, were soon content to lie down on their beds, and seemed to spend much of the time sleeping. But this was no drugged, disordered sleep such as follows heavy dosing with barbiturates, scopolamine or insulin. A gentle shake of the shoulder would bring the patient wide awake at once, able to give sense-making answers. After a few days the somnolence wore off, but the patients remained calm. They willingly took pills instead of requiring injections...