Word: organically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leader for the Parade. France's intransigence put pro-Western Habib Bourguiba squarely on the spot. Appearing in the streets of Tunis, he was greeted by outraged crowds shouting. "Give us arms! Give us arms!" L'Action, official organ of Bourguiba's Neo-Destour Party, editorialized: "To be respected in 1958 one can no longer be a friend of the West. The day that Bourguiba decides to follow the path set by Nehru, Tito and Nasser, Tunisia will no longer be lied about and attacked. She will be wooed." Cooed Beirut's El Massa: "Turn...
Helen Maysey was a sickly baby. She had a stubborn anemia that did not respond to treatment with iron and vitamins. By the time she was three, doctors found her spleen enlarged, decided that this versatile organ, which both makes and destroys blood cells, was overdoing the destructive part of its job. Surgeons took out her spleen. That gave only temporary relief, and Helen had to have repeated transfusions to keep her stock of red blood cells anywhere near normal. When she was ten, doctors figured that Helen had about two months to live. That was 17 years...
Last week the tension between writer and commissar stretched even tighter. The party decided to turn the independent-minded daily Sztandar Mlodych (Standard of Youth) into a house organ for the Communists' discredited Union of Socialist Youth Association. Then Stalinist Author Leon Kruczkowski, chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, bluntly warned the press that censorship will become an even stronger "weapon of cultural policy...
Reward from Moscow. Last week Dolci won another kind of victory. Praising the "incisive vigor" with which Dolci had depicted the "inhuman conditions" in Sicily, Radio Moscow gratuitously announced that "Peace Partisan" Dolci had won the Lenin (formerly Stalin) Peace Prize. Rome's La Giustizia, organ of the Social Democrats, promptly appealed to non-Communist Dolci to reject an award which "comes from the executioners of the workers in Hungary." Dolci did not even hesitate. "I shall always accept, from anywhere, gifts that help my mission of good works," he said. He announced that the $25,000 prize money...
...been used. There was still no sign of a heartbeat or of life in David's eyes. The clamps were removed. Then the seemingly unbelievable happened. Says Dr. Mahajan, who was still massaging David's heart at the time: "One moment it was a flabby, lifeless organ. Suddenly it swelled alive-strong, firm, and pumping steadily...