Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China by bloody revolution. For eight months, May to December in 1930, I was in an area under their control down in south China. I saw firsthand their utterly ruthless purges and slaughterings of anyone who crossed their will. But they could not win converts by that method because the Chinese are basically too peace-loving and orderly a people. When the Communists in China had reached the end of their rope they
...shifted to another method. They adopted a great propaganda program to sell to the world the belief that they are merely downtrodden patriots, seeking to escape the tyranny and oppressions of Chiang Kai-shek in order to get freedom and establish democracy-just like our forefathers were in 1776. By talking about freedom and democracy and unity and so forth, and by calling all who disagree with them fascists and dictators, they have succeeded in selling to millions of Americans one of the greatest hoaxes any unsuspecting people ever bought in all history. I spent more time and effort...
...tired of reading and hearing Edmund Burke's famous sentence, "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people," used by German conciliators to justify a soft peace. Dr. Hutchins surely knows he is misinterpreting Burke's speech of March 22, 1775, "On Moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," when he quotes this sentence from...
...with a Method. Of the new appointees, Clinton Presba Anderson had been most recently in the news. As chairman of a special House food investigating committee, he had roared about the country, blasting the ineptitude and red tape which had given the U.S. its greatest food shortage. Only last week, two days before his appointment, he had released a blistering report on the sugar scandal (see BUSINESS...
...field drew sneers & jeers at "rejuvenations," "elixirs" and "monkey glands." But in 1926 University of Chicago Chemist Fred Koch and his assistant Lemuel McGee began dissolving, fractionating and distilling tons of bulls' testicles in an attempt to discover what it is that makes bulls bulls. They developed a method for obtaining from some 40 Ibs. of bull glands 20 milligrams of a substance which, when injected into capons, restored them to roosterhood. It was also tried on a 26-year-old eunuchoid male who lacked all libido and most of the outward signs of masculinity (beard, deep voice...