Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land where nothing succeeds like excess, Comrade Kadar proved himself adept. Said he: "We have stepped on the soil of the Soviet Union with our hearts filled with confidence, for we have come to our most faithful, our truest friends." Kadar thanked the Russians effusively for their bloody intervention in Hungary last autumn, in which an estimated 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives. "The whole world now knows," Kadar said, "that every socialist state can count on the help of the Communist camp and above all of the Soviet Union." Then Kadar and hosts drove off for "ideological and economic...
...devoted himself from the start strictly to politics rather than other topical matters, praising democrats and making fun of strongmen. During the 1952 Panamanian elections he made his professional breakthrough with a glowing ditty about a democrat of sorts, the late President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remon. The lyrics, shunning excess modesty, called Remon "the saviour of Panama"; Remon used it as a campaign jingle, and after he won the election sent Kontiki a check for $250. For any rising young calypso singer, the next step was clear. Then only 16, Kontiki strolled into a local ginmill one night...
...them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost foaming it, with a stream of oxygen. Then, to get rid of excess bubbles, he let the blood settle slowly in a slightly inclined cylinder and a helical reservoir, both coated on the inside with an antifoaming compound long used by brewers. The DeWall oxygenator, coupled to two standard commercially available pumps, won quick favor in many surgical centers. It is now-with minor local modifications...
HELP loans will bear interest one-half per cent in excess of the "prime rate" in Boston at the time that the loan is made. In Boston at present the "prime rate," that paid by the biggest borrowers with the best credit, is four per cent...
...coincidence of the Sabbath, the inhabitants cannot, of course, help salvage the ship. Under the cover of night however, they helpfully remove excess cargo before the ship sinks. The film revolves around this incident and has little other plot. "Tight Little Island" merely follows the consequences of the whiskey ship's wrecking, which, by the way, is supposed to have actually happened...