Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of an old wound, Terrorist Lo cannot smile, but only grimace, and he speaks through clenched teeth out of the corner of his mouth. A chain smoker, heavy drinker and woman chaser, Lo has made a unique contribution to Marxist dialectics: he invented "the deviation of boundless magnanimity" (i.e., being too soft on counter-revolutionaries), a deviation which had to be "discovered and resolutely corrected." Though now a full general and recently decorated, Lo still lacks high party rating (he is one of 27 alternates of the Central Committee), and Mao still keeps much of the secret political...
Counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries do not reconcile themselves to their ex tinction; on the contrary, it is precisely because of their impending doom that they put up resistance and carry out sabotage more desperately." The terrorist with the twisted mouth knows better than most that there will never be peace-must never be peace-in Communist China...
...Calcutta's Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal reports a high degree of success in cutting down the birth rate by using metaxylohydroquinone an extract derived originally from the common Indian garden pea* (Pisum sativum), now synthesized in the laboratory. Taken by mouth, it cut the birth rate among 232 women by about two-thirds over a 15-month period, he reports. Some U.S. researchers scoffed at Dr. Sanyal's methods and results; others listened with interest because they consider him a careful, conscientious worker. The Indian government rated his findings worth a full-scale trial...
Says Dr. Mirsky by way of warning: "Anything which poisons one substance in the body may also poison others. Only time will tell whether these compounds can safely be taken indefinitely." But Mirsky predicted that within a couple of years, drugs taken by mouth will control diabetes safely and effectively...
...mystery on which Dr. Dick Read stumbled has him baffled. In a tribe whose women are famed for their beauty, the chiefs have forbidden the women to bear more than one child each. To obey, they take an herb preparation by mouth every six or eight months. What the magic contraceptive component is, no white man knows...