Word: hybridization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample of the Anderson technique: "The American brain trust, alien to and superimposed upon the land of Old Glory, is but a branch of the International Secret Superstate which holds equally Soviet Russia, plutocratic England, and Roosevelt's America in the hollow of its hybrid hand. . . . Roosevelt has pulled a brass band out of his hip pocket, and a concentration camp from under the coattails of the brain trust. . . . Roosevelt consolidated with Churchill in the simultaneous declaration of war upon Japan . . . so the American people have gone to war to save Stalin and the international banker which...
...only truces were political expediencies. In the House, Republicans Fish, Tinkham and Mundt gathered enough strength from their own party and from anti-Roosevelt Democrats to harass and threaten every Presidential move. In the Senate, Wheeler, Bennett Clark, Taft and Nye did the same, with similar hybrid cohorts...
...pure breeds of chickens have been developed whose sex can be identified by their markings as soon as they hatch. Sex-sorting of chicks has hitherto been a ticklish and difficult art. Unlike hybrid chicks, in which the sex difference shows up only in the first generation, the new breeds have sex distinctions which persist, according to the researchers who developed them. Developed at Cambridge, England, the new fowls are cherished in Britain, where only egg layers are wanted and it is a waste of food to raise young cocks until they can be identified...
These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid. Particular stumbling block is The Guardsman's plot: the predicament of an actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens...
...seconds later Woods radioed Hong Kong: "BOTH PLANES OFF PROCEEDING HONGKONG." Four hours later the hybrid was home...