Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cautiously, Premier Joseph Laniel and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault tried to extract a policy out of the paradox of a war France could find no way to win yet dared not lose. The Geneva Conference was not far off. The National Assembly demanded to know how the government proposed to stand when the diplomats at Geneva discussed Indo-China...
...adroit craftsman who knows how to make the unlikely seem probable. He builds long bridges of suspense, then skillfully carries his stories across to his predetermined points. It is not surprising, in view of his qualities, that he has been overpraised. Long on plot, short on character, his stories extract their effectiveness from anecdotal gimmicks and surprise endings. One test of a fine story is its rereadability, and this, naturally, is a test that few of these modern O. Henry tales can meet...
...millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores. "The only thing I could do," said Dr. Devenis, "[was to try to extract vitamin C from] pine needles and pine cones. So I used to cook them in a big kettle, and all the prisoners' were given a glass of that concoction to drink every night. [It] was not enough to cure well-developed scurvy...
There has been little hint of speedy settlement between the two interested parties. Tito has threatened to march on Trieste; Italian Premier Giuseppe Pella must extract a promise from America and Britain that Italy will eventually get Zone B if he is to remain powerful in his nation's polities. And so, the two, leaders are now working at hopelessly crossed purposes, each proposing his own compromise and rejecting all others...
Said Dr. Ochsner: "This study of Drs. Graham and Wynder [published in Cancer Research, out this week] has proven beyond any doubt that in tobacco tar there is an agent which produces cancer. If we could find it and extract it, smoking might not be harmful. But, on the basis of the number of people who are smoking now, I predict that by 1970 one out of every two or three men with cancer will have cancer of the lung-or one out of every ten or twelve men living...