Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hysteroid person is a show-off as a child, a complainer as a grownup. He (or she) is a "bachelor in marriage," holding firmly to the apron strings of both parents and using ill health as a method of sadistically dominating his family...
...themselves as conquerors. Among their Allies in Tokyo they shoulder their way in and seize every opportunity to throw their weight around. Their own idea of victory, as revealed in areas where they are in occupation, is to make blunt demands at the point of a gun. But their method is not necessarily tougher or more effective than MacArthur's. He is using a policy much admired by Adolf Hitler, who was hardly a softie: making a demand which by itself does not seem to be worth resisting; after that has been gained, making another demand...
Bell Telephone Co. paid a yo-year-old debt last week. Alexander Graham Bell was really studying the problems of the deaf when he happened to invent the telephone. Now the telephone company, grown great on his sideline invention, has developed a method of making speech visible, so that the totally deaf can read...
Goring wanted a better method of reviving Luftwaffe flyers fished out of cold northern waters. Dachau concentration camp was an ideal place for experimentation. Nazi doctors there, on Goring's orders, chilled political prisoners in every imaginable way, often until their pulse and breathing stopped. Then they tried reviving the victims...
...method was hardly original - nor even "Aryan." Aged King David (Kings 1: 1:1-4) was thus warmed by Abishag, a fair young virgin Shunammite, when his body "gat no heatt; But the experiment had been no more successful in Jerusalem than it was in Dachau...