Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During World War II, several medical schools adopted a similar timetable to turn out six-year or even 5 ½-year wonders. The big difference now, however, is that the new accelerated courses have no "crash" concept behind them. What they have done is lop off many of the nonscientific aspects of a professional education. Most of the courses utilize the summer months, provide about the same training as normal medical-school programs. "These programs are designed to let the bright young man go at his own pace," says Dr. Shevis Smyth of the Association of American Medical Colleges...
...episodes, and supply the better part of the linguistic embroidery. Miss Garson also draws on Othello for bits of martial brouhaha and on Richard II for the pervasive vegetable metaphor that crops up in MacBird's first press conference ("This land will be a garden carefully pruned; / We'll lop off any branch that looks too tall / That seems to grow too lofty or too fast") and in the spectacle of a mad Lady MacBird sweetening the land with bouquets and aerosol deodorant. To assert that MacBird rapes the old Swan with no intelligence and no compassion is evidently...
Shared Blame. Tapped in 1961 to build the spacecraft's command and service modules, North American was in trouble with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration almost from the start. Unhappy about costs and sloppy workmanship, the space agency eventually forced the Los Angeles-based company to lop off 3,000 workers, sent in extra quality-control inspectors, changed contracting procedures to combat what it considered North American's "time clock" approach...
...certify the value of what one writer called "the atomic bomb of Mao's thought," China exploded its fifth nuclear device last week at its Lop Nor test site in Sinkiang. As the Chinese press reported it, the test was "a heavy blow to the plot of U.S. imperialism and Soviet modern revisionism." A more objective analysis will have to wait until the fallout drifts into the hands of Western scientists...
...sharp debate rages among China-watchers on the question of Red China's nuclear and rocket capability. The main point of contention is whether or not the crude nuclear devices that three times in the past two years have boomed over Lop Nor in the Takla Makan Desert are deliverable atomic bombs...