Word: discards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutrality broke out again last week. For the second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance -more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government...
Past Error. Before 1941 Boris had said: "My ministers are pro-German, my wife is pro-Italian, my people are pro-Russian-I am the only neutral in the country." The decision to discard his neutrality, rather than defend it against Nazi infiltration, was his prime mistake...
Most exotic group of convicted objectors (7%) were Negro "Moslems," who discard their "slave names" when they embrace their new religion and presently get new ones (like John Jones Bey) from Mecca. Their reason for refusal to serve was simple: In Mecca, war has not been declared...
...centrifuged to separate the light-colored fluid (plasma) from the red blood corpuscles. The plasma-60% of the blood's volume-may save a life in Africa; the red residue goes down the sewer, because red blood corpuscles quickly spoil. New York's Lederle Laboratories alone discard over 1,000 pints...
Great Britain, whose Colonial Service has been known to discard young men who showed an undue interest in the Empire's other races, had never faced the "race problem" at home. Ninety per cent of Britain's citizens had never actually seen or talked to a black-skinned human being before. America's polite, liquid-voiced, smartly uniformed Negro soldiers were a surprise, a pleasure, and a happy opportunity for them to thumb the nose of moral self-righteousness at the U.S. Britain's hospitable small homes were thrown open to white & black alike...