Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing of the Soviet allegations," and debate was scheduled for this week by an almost unanimous vote of the General Assembly...
...India's best-known and most widely respected capitalists. "National pride," said Masani, "demands that one should catch up, if not with the prosperity of the U.S. or Canada, at least with that of France or Italy. The Asian intellectual casts his eyes around for some method by which his country can pull itself up almost overnight by its bootstraps. Only too often, Communism is not to him the brave new world that the Western Utopians saw in the '30s, but a practical expedient by means of which a poor nation can ruthlessly mobilize its manpower and resources...
...Their method: in the anesthetized donor animal, after the heart's major blood vessels were closed, the organs were perfused with a solution to wash out all blood which might later cause clotting. Then the organs were cut out and stored in a preservative solution at 40° F. while the recipient dog was prepared. This animal was hooked up to a heart-lung machine which did its blood pumping and breathing as long as necessary. Then its heart and lung or lungs were cut out and discarded. Now the surgeons took the chilled organs from the refrigerator...
Acheson defined the "central problem of world power" as the United States' need to lead "a group of free nations by method of free association...
...truth was that no paratrooper had entered the girls' locker room, none had come closer than the non-transparent doors leading to the locker room. But there was method in Orval's mendacity: Little Rock opinion was plainly turning against him. A Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray...