Word: infant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
McKinley's Prayer. The Filipinos have reason to cheer the rise of Ramon Magsaysay-and the U.S. has reason to be a sympathetic onlooker. For the infant republic of the Philippines is the great-and unfinished-U.S. experiment in transplanting democracy. In its tropical laboratory, among the dying roots of colonialism and the lushly growing thickets of Communism, the U.S. brand of freedom is being tested in the Orient...
Washington helped the infant republic with war damage dollars, war surplus, ECA bequests, RFC loans, millions in back pay to Filipino soldiers and guerrillas. Altogether the U.S., in six years, put $2 billion into the Philippines. But the money flowed in without proper planning, or proper safeguards. Instead of going into the mouths or onto the backs of Filipinos, U.S. surplus and relief goods slid from one speculator and profiteer to another. It was a poor trader who could not triple or quadruple his investment in pencils, tractors or derricks...
...developed a synthetic sow-milk called "Terralac," fortified with the antibiotic Terramycin. With Terralac, farmers can take baby pigs, which usually suckle for 56 days, away from the sow within 48 hours, prevent the newborn from being crushed by its clumsy mother. In experiments, Terralac cut down infant pig mortality to 5% (v. normal...
From a plant's point of view, its flowers are only a means to an end. Their purpose is to attract pollen-carrying insects. Once the ovules are fertilized, the plant devotes its energies to nurturing the infant seeds and so does not produce as many flowers as it might. This is good for the plant's posterity, but bad for flower lovers...
...girl like you-I've got a set of false teeth-and I want to have a son as soon as possible-will you share the life of a modest writer? . . . Will you be my wife?" Eighteen months later, in February 1944, Tanya Matthews, her husband, and their infant son flew out of the U.S.S.R. toward England and the freedom of the West...