Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China has played it both ways. In the first flush of conquering the mainland, the Reds championed the Overseas Chinese and even allotted them 30 seats in the National People's Congress at Peking. The hua-chiao were called "the endeared children of the Chinese nation" and were told that their "proper rights and interests are now protected by their country." Thousands of hua-chiao students went to China to complete their education; Chinese schoolteachers throughout Southeast Asia displayed Peking's five-starred flag; delirious Singapore millionaires endowed academies and hospitals in China; and millions of dollars poured...
...London's medical journal Lancet, Professors Michele Pavone-Macaluso and Antonino Anello described the case. Last winter a 34-year-old housewife bent on suicide swallowed bichloride of mercury. After eleven days, her system still could not flush out the poison. So with tubes from a vein and artery in one arm, the doctors hooked her up to an artificial kidney. But instead of letting her blood circulate through cellophane tubing in a chemical bath, and relying on the solution to remove the poisons, they wheeled a donor into the treatment room. The donor: a 130-lb. ewe, heavily...
Overflowing Heart. In their first flush of enthusiasm over regaining Trieste, Rome's bureaucrats floated a national bond issue to help compensate the city for the economic loss it suffered with the departure of the 6,000 U.S. and British troops who had garrisoned the free territory. But since then, Rome has turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy...
...paintings hang on the curved wall, two or four to a partition. Towards the top, where the curvature makes flush hanging impossible, Museum Curator James Sweeney has devised metal rods which project the paintings into the air, causing them seemingly to float in space. Arranging the pictures was necessarily an imposing task; not only must they co-ordinate with their neighbors, but also with those on opposite walls...
When the police brought in two dogs to help flush a trapped burglar out of a building in Baltimore, he leaped out of a second-story window, breaking both ankles. "I looked at the dogs and I looked at the pavement." he explained afterwards, "and I decided the pavement was safer...