Word: counteractions
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...South it was the rockets, and more than brännvin was needed to counteract them. Since last May, swarms of spool-shaped, silent missiles with fiery tails have been zooming over Swedish territory at 875 m.p.h. (500-odd reports described some as slower and cigar-shaped, others as square and red-bottomed...
...drugs simply counteract each other, explained Drs. Abraham Freireich and Joseph Landsberg, in the A.M.A. Journal. Dr. Freireich, a Long Island county toxicologist, directed the treatments which revived 19 would-be suicides with massive intravenous injections of benzedrine. (The reviving dose of benzedrine would be equally poisonous to any but a thoroughly doped victim.) Benzedrine, he also found, prevents the pneumonia which frequently follows an unsuccessful barbiturate poisoning...
...Young Marshal's punishment was cushioned captivity. It was known vaguely that he was somewhere in a closely guarded countryside villa. Recently Chinese political circles buzzed with rumors that the Generalissimo would send the Young Marshal to Manchuria to counteract the influence of his brother, Chang Hsueh-shih. The Communists have installed Chang Hsueh-shih as governor of strategic Liaoning province, and some Chinese think he is a potential Red candidate for boss of all Manchuria. Last week the rumors boiled down to the fact that the Generalissimo had sent a go-between to call on the Young Marshal...
...Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain to calm him. But Bevin ploughed on: "I am so tired of these charges by the Soviet Government in private assembly that no one will be happier than I to see that...
Result: Belgian pupils now find old classroom procedures dull. To counteract Nazi poison, M. Buisseret last week applied to a United Nations education commission in London for advice on replacing Belgium's old system with one as good as the Nazis...