Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time on blood-donor services and banks under their control, and AABB has an inspection service to make sure that the blood they supply is not only fresh but, so far as possible, free of disease. Even so, donors out to make blood money will sometimes lie about whether they have had malaria, which is hard to check in the laboratory, or hepatitis, which is impossible to check. These diseases are a small but real peril in blood transfusion. Though no case of injury to a patient had been traced to blood supplied by the West-Chester firm, officials...
...psychiatrists are going out of their minds. The rooms, they say, are the wrong colors; patients freeze as soon as they lie down. And the authorities don't want them redone...
...place?' and she said, 'Why not?' " It takes Emile three years to get a woman up to his place. The education of Emile continues in episodic vaudeville skits, and the hero gradually realizes that the system has no logic. When it fails, "you have to lie," he discovers. All is chance and absurdity...
...popularity contest. He arrived in Japan at a favorable moment, when a reaction against the earlier violence had already set in, and he now concedes that Predecessor MacArthur on the whole did a good job in a difficult period. Reischauer's own stiff tests still lie ahead. One of them: defense, U.S. occupation of Okinawa is a continuing source of friction in Japan, which wants to resume full sovereignty (it may soon get a bigger role in the island's administration). Though Japan spends only 1.4% of its national income on defense and relies...
Theatrical Destruction. With scholarly detachment, Taylor states the case for appeasing Hitler and for resisting him, but his sympathies obviously lie with the appeasers. Germany, he argues, had a right as a great power to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936, even though Winston Churchill, among others, felt that Hitler could have been easily stopped and probably toppled from power. At Munich, writes Taylor, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saved the peace and served the principle of self-determination, i.e., by handing a slice of Czechoslovakia to Germany because a lot of Germans lived there. Writes Taylor: "It was a triumph...