Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient's needs. And some Chinese medicines have panned out by Western standards (e.g., "ma-huang," known in America as ephedrine, a drug which constricts blood vessels). But Dr. Chang is an exception: in the hands of most village practitioners, the native craft has degenerated into superstitious mumbo jumbo...
Instead the State Department resorted to a mumbo-jumbo of wishful nonsense. Prize specimen: "You cannot say that our policy is ever static. It is developing with new developments. But there has been no change in our policy...
...October, Pledge Soik was thoroughly fed up with "assuming the position" to be paddled, with being waked up at 3 a.m. for more of the same, with being especially singled out for hazing because he laughed at upper classmen's high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth...
...Laymen still do not understand psychiatry, partly because of its mumbo-jumbo terminology. They still have "the human reaction of horror to psychiatric disease...
...specific: let government take over the means of production. To Mises, the Austrian free-trade economist now exiled in the U.S., the evil that afflicts the world has one origin everywhere: too much government intervention in men's livelihoods. To Mises, Laski's way of thinking is mumbo jumbo, utterly divorced from reality. To Laski, Mises' ideas are about as useful as a stone hatchet. Soviet Heaven? Laski's book is a jeweled affair, packed with all the learned rag, tag, and bobtail that has become embedded in a remarkably assimilative mind. The Laski argument...