Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the moves were routinely reported, China watchers saw them as the biggest political event on the main land since the death two years ago of Lin Piao, the Defense Minister who was killed trying to defect to the Soviet Union. All but one of the transferred commanders had held, in addition to their military positions, the top politi cal jobs in their areas. Significantly, the three commanders left in their posts wield no such political power...
...reason for the forcible correction of the child's "defect" remained, however. In Japan there is a deep-seated prejudice against lefthanders that goes back so far in time that its origins are unknown. It is especially strong in rural areas, where teachers used to beat lefthanded pupils, and girls still pretend to be righthanded in order to get married. If their secret is discovered, they run the risk of being divorced...
Henry Dietrich earns a modest $125 a week at his job exercising horses at a race track not far from his Broward County home in Davie, Fla. When doctors told him that his oldest son Jody, 6, was suffering from a serious heart defect that would require treatment costing $2,500, Dietrich was hard pressed to come up with the money. What's more, he apparently misunderstood hospital administrators when they told him that they would appreciate a deposit before admitting his son. They were not demanding any money in advance, they said later. But no matter. Dietrich told...
...attack him. During a family sidewalk fracas, a pregnant woman was pounded about the abdomen by a patrolman; although the woman has four other normal children, the infant born after that beating has a drooping eyelid, a bone protruding from his chest and a congenital heart defect...
This was not the first time that the U.A.W. tradesmen had been rebellious. They began agitating for special treatment in the late 1950s, threatening to defect to other unions or to form their own. By letting them veto parts of the contract, union chiefs put down the insurrection, though uprisings still occur and probably will continue...