Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grafted, mixed it with heparin to 'keep it from clotting, separated the cells from the blood plasma, put the plasma in the icebox. She shook the cells up with a special salt solution, separated the salty liquid and kept it, threw the cells away. She calls the salty fluid her "extract." The plasma plus the extract constitutes her glue...
Battle Lines, 1943. China's battlefronts now are fluid and generally quiet. Occasional outbursts scorch and blacken the countryside, but they always have a limited objective. In some sectors remote from the heart of Free China, the Japs and the Chinese even, fraternize at arms' distance. Chinese and Japanese officers sometimes share fabulous profits from the smuggling of tungsten, cotton, wool, tin, tung oil, U.S. bank notes. Chinese divisions in the war-quiet areas operate their own factories and farms, direct their energies toward a stable military economy. The Japanese rarely molest them. These activities cannot be judged...
...never been a cut-&-dried, Big-Five or Big-Seven operation: stars and producers float around from studio to studio; some of the biggest producing companies have no studios of their own; some of the biggest studio owners have virtually no production under their own trademarks. This intricate, fluid setup was a natural for a man with J. Arthur Rank's wealth and financial acumen. Until he descended upon the British cinema industry, this setup had also been a natural for the big U.S. producers, who made almost all the good pictures anyway. The U.S. had maintained a stranglehold...
They parry with similar dexterity. Both sides move a limited number swiftly about, trying to penetrate undefended bases, catch unprotected bombers and smother the antagonist with a temporary superiority of numbers. It is a fluid, unrelenting game, fought with courage and skill...
Local or General? This week, the Eastern Front no longer surged westward. Instead, it had become a fluid line, moving east at some points, moving west at many, static at most. Though handicapped, the Red units in the western Ukraine still presented a force seemingly too formidable to be swept into the Dnieper by the battered Wehrmacht. The Germans, despite their sudden show of strength, stood on a line which was easily pierced. In all likelihood the Nazi counterattacks were not a general, coordinated offensive, but were local attacks, intended merely to halt the Russians until the German defenses...