Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city sprang up where no city seemed to belong. It built a 233-mile aqueduct, ruthlessly sucked away the water of the distant Owens River-a project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...
...uses to make a hormone), doctors have hoped that a cancerous thyroid would absorb radioactive iodine 131 in sufficient quantity to kill the unruly cells. Unfortunately, this effort was none too successful. The normal thyroid took up nearly all the iodine. The cancerous thyroid cells, particularly the metastases in distant parts of the body, took up so little that they were hardly damaged by the iodine's radioactivity...
...heirs of old Claus-five women and three men, among them Playboy (five marriages) Adolph B. Spreckels Jr.-had shown little interest in the business. As they needed cash to continue living in their high & handsome manner, they preferred to liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville, a distant Spreckels kin and longtime employee of the company, was glad to help in the liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans...
...must have such power over himself as to be capable of nothing but "utter submission" to the invisible Big Brother. By practising the Newspeak art of doublethink, he must learn to believe in the very core of his being that even "the stars can be near or distant, according as we [the party] need them." Only then can he become "immortal"-his identity lost in the deathless unity of the party...
...freight absorption, a mainstay of the basing point system. But O'Mahoney said that the bill would only put into law what FTC has been saying ever since the Supreme Court decision, namely, that any manufacturer could absorb freight charges to meet a competitor's prices at distant points so long as there was no conspiracy to fix prices. What FTC had objected to was collusive freight absorption. Much of the confusion, he thought, had been caused not so much by the decision as by those who wanted to pressure Congress into legalizing basing points...