Word: extracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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German Chemists Peter Karlson and Adolf Butenandt of the University of Munich collected three tons of silkworm pupae, ground up the little animals, then carefully processed the mess to extract 100 milligrams (one three-hundredth of an ounce) of a hormone called ecdysone. They knew ecdysone played a large part in the silkworm's life cycle, and when they discovered that it was remarkably similar to human sex hormones, they were fascinated. But what, if anything, did it have to do with DNA's genetic code...
...Should the U.S. try to extract a political price for the wheat? In return for U.S. help in keeping Russian bellies full, perhaps Khrushchev could be talked into a promise not to launch any new cold war adventures for a while...
Fearful that Indonesia might extract further delays out of Malaya's easygoing Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, the architect of the federation, Singapore's brilliant, shifty Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who regards Sukarno as "an international blackmailer," swung into action. Flying to Sarawak and North Borneo, "Harry" Lee picked up the chief ministers of both territories and brought them back to Kuala Lumpur to stiffen up the Tunku. Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys was also on hand, working hard to get agreement. Threatening to declare Singapore an independent state, Lee pressured Abdul Rahman into holding...
...implicate Cohn might get a break, and of offering immunity to "gangsters and racketeers in order to get perjured evidence against me." And he referred to "a prominent case recently concluded" in which Morgenthau "obtained the sentencing of all the defendants except those from whom he sought to extract something unfavorable concerning me. To whip these defendants in line, he has 'deferred' their sentences with promises of leniency if they play his game, and threats of long jail terms if they do not." Cohn did not indicate whether the "prominent case" was the United Dye scandal...
Exams, which will precede all the above maneuvers, are expected to extract at least three hours of everyone's time between now and Friday. Students wishing to discover the results of their ordeal before the registrar sends out the impersonal, IBM style grade reports, should try the Harvard system of slipping a self-addressed post card into their blue book. It usually brings results...