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Word: defect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signed confession, Quinim's assassin, a lance corporal named Chy Kong, charged Quinim with trying to overthrow the government and bribing neutralist officers to defect to the Pathet Lao forces encamped in the Plaine des Jarres, where at week's end fighting broke out that caused 20 casualties. Asked if he agreed that Quinim had been proCommunist, Premier Souvanna Phouma replied simply: "He is dead. Peace to his soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: After the Party | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...thundering that three directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall), 13 stars, ten costars, 12,000 extras, and 1,000 buffaloes have done in How the West Was Won. Even the troublesome match-lines where the images from three projectors come together-the process's persistent defect-have been masked by photographers clever at lining up the joinings with telegraph poles, cabin corners and lonesome pines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffalorama | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...with him at the Casa-B, much less leave the Square with him for a quiet life on the Cape. As written, the part of Gaylord is too much sermon and too simple to offer a meaningful alternative to Gentry's glittering evil. Hoagland's acting accentuates this defect in the script; his morality has no teeth...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov, | Title: A Short Safari Through Purgatory | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...drop of blood. Anybody with a normal ceruloplasmin level can forget about Wilson's disease. But anybody with an abnormally low level, the Bronx doctors say, should have a further test for copper in the liver. If this registers high, the patient is assumed to have the chemical defect and is promptly put on drugs and diet in the hope of preventing the development of full-blown disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inherited Diseases: Devastating Defect | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Though it will take many years to determine whether the disease can be completely prevented, Drs. Sternlieb and Scheinberg have encouraging evidence from several patients. One boy from a Wilson's disease family was diagnosed as having the defect when he was only ten months old. He has been treated for eight years and is still well; his older sister, whose case was not diagnosed in time, became severely ill by age twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inherited Diseases: Devastating Defect | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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