Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinal Sins. But while heaping reward after reward upon the scientist, Stalin increasingly demanded servility. In the '30s, the party waged war on "academic individualism," and in the great purge of 1936-38, nearly half of the academy's party members were either shot or shipped to forced-labor camps. Cosmopolitanism (the idea that science could be foreign or Jewish), objectivism (the refusal to interpret new research in the light of Marxism), and idealism (a catch-all indictment) became the cardinal sins. The era of "fatherland science" had begun. By official decree, Russia claimed so many retroactive scientific...
...have been photographed in the forefront of practically every Arab nationalist gathering that Nasser has assembled over the last few years in Cairo. In between was Lebanon's little army, largely Christian-officered, shirking any showdown for fear that pressing any outcome other than compromise, in a community half Christian and half Moslem, would be risking the destruction of the prosperous little republic where West and Middle East meet...
...saying that the Lebanese regime had "what seems to us to be serious evidence" of Nasserite interference in its affairs; but the State Department privately hoped that the Lebanese government would not press its complaint before the U.N. asking investigation of United Arab Republic subversion. Cairo, Moscow and half the Middle East press were crying "American intervention." Two of Chamoun's Moslem ministers resigned in protest at what they called a "betraying" appeal to outsiders against a fellow Arab state...
...Washington's stately Metropolitan Club, Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther found former Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson in a jovial frame of mind. "Why don't you get over to the State Department and do something about all the trouble?" asked Acheson. Half-flattered, Gruenther answered: "Dulles isn't as bad as all that, do you think?" "Oh, I didn't mean you should take over from Foster," shot back Acheson, "but aren't you in charge of disaster areas...
Their composite heads and brains seemed normal. The host chicks were Rhode Island Reds but the grafted tissue came from a black breed and it showed its origin by the growth of black feathers on the top of the head. The upper beak, eyes, ears, forebrain and half of the midbrain were grafted too, but the chicks could see and hear well and seemed to be normally alert. The one that lived 70 days learned to respond to a whistle, which many birds never learn...