Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kefauver promised, if elected President, to "reinstate not just a bipartisan foreign policy but a nonpartisan foreign policy." He urged less emphasis on "military might as our only method and our sole end in the world." As for Russia, the U.S. "must be prepared to meet all genuine offers of peaceful cooperation in the spirit in which they are given...
When Chairman Paul Butler says the Democratic party "need make no apologies for a method of selection which produced the nomination of Harry S. Truman" [in 1944, when Wallace was dropped], he is talking like a narrow-minded politician. Roosevelt had far, far less part in picking Truman than did Hannegan and Flynn, two professional politicians working closely with Edwin W. Pauley, an oil man, over a period of several months...
...succinct loquacity. At bottom, Godot is both a neatly fingered exercise in wit and a pointillist rendering of humanity's dark-forest moods. But its very neatness gives it rather a symbolic rat-tat-rat than something that reverberantly makes great gashes and rents. Beckett's method dispenses with the usual stage clothing, but hardly to get closer to nakedness, for nakedness implies flesh, and Godot very often seems ghostly. The best symbolic works, from Moby Dick or Don Quixote down, never wear their symbolism on their sleeves; the symbolism brings added depth and resonance to an always...
Since the successful case of the young boy, the Cleveland team has used the "stopped-heart" method in eight more severe cases; two died, apparently not because of the heart arrest but mainly because their condition was desperate before it. The team says conservatively that the principle "has introduced an era of open-heart surgery...
...fraction, "hypothalamic D," which puts the pituitary to work when the animal (or human) is faced by physical or mental stress. Also named the "ACTH-hypophysiotropic hormone," it can be injected to give the same results as a shot of ACTH, e.g., in rheumatoid arthritis, by a more natural method. ¶ A series of changes in liver function shortly before and after birth enables the newborn mammal (whether human or rat makes no difference) to withstand the shock of emergence into the world, said a team of Boston biochemists headed by Harvard's Dr. Claude A. Villee...