Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team--professors, residents, interns and nurses--all give the patient a Germanic lecture on wasting time, being undeserving and taking another person's bedspace, and they tube-feed the patient, through the nose and down to the stomach. As soon as the patient makes an effort to eat and gains weight, the negative lecture becomes positive: 'You are a deserving person. You are a good German.' And they have the best success rate. They say the patients all gain 25 pounds...
Above all, Hughes' withdrawal stemmed from a deep fear that others would gain power over him. It was an ironic inversion of his own ruthless desire to impose his will on others. In an exchange of messages with a Merrill Lynch executive in 1960, Hughes boasted that for most of his life he had never done anything that he did not want to. Though he attracted many talented people into his service, he demanded a total obedience...
...Premier: Hua Kuo-feng, 56, the relatively unknown Minister of Public Security whose appointment as Acting Premier ten weeks ago marked the first stage of the assault on Teng. Hua's confirmation as Premier had been predicted for some time by Sinologists. But few expected he would also gain a second and in some ways more significant post. Hua was also given a newly created title -First Vice Chairman of the Communist Party (there are now only two other Vice Chairmen). That clearly designated him as the leading candidate to succeed Mao Tse-tung eventually as Chairman of China...
...weeks only with informal socialist support. After the socialists threatened to withdraw that support last week, the government was near collapse. If it falls, the probable result can be an early national election. In such a vote, the Communists, based on their strong showing in recent regional elections, might gain enough seats to demand a formal share in government-Italy's long-anticipated "historic compromise...
...Chris Sarandon (the transvestite of Dog Day Afternoon), the rapist does not fit the profile of the typical sex offender, a street punk making his way up from petty theft to murder. No, he is Margaux's kid sister's music teacher, soliciting her influence to gain a hearing for his electronic compositions. Nor is his attack a brutish lunge out of the dark. The rape is strictly high fashion - a handsome bedroom setting, the victim tied prettily with silk scarves while he sodomizes her, the whole busi ness staged and photographed with stylish prurience...