Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Berlin, Communist inspectors reported: "Working according to schedule is an extremely rare event . . . An average of ten substandard cylinder heads has been made for every one that was up to standard." At the huge Iron Works East at Furstenberg on the Oder, reporters from Neues Deutschland, official organ of the German Communist Party, found Foreman Horst Kewitsch angrily complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep working, we have had to replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace Three with parts from Furnace Four...
...home, and was double-crossed when he got there. Nine others would also be hanged on some lonely dawn. Three of the accused were let off with life imprisonment on the ground that they had been forced to take orders from higher-ups. Said Prague's official Communist organ, Rude Pravo: "The accused are creatures who long ago lost the right to be called men. When looking at them, one is reminded of the pictures from Korea of the spiders, bugs and rats carrying with them the plague, typhoid and cholera...
...unanimous decision, the court decided that "no legislative organ can perform an act of levitation and lift itself above its own powers." This, in effect, voided Prime Minister Malan's attempt to disenfranchise Cape Province's 48,000 half-caste voters by a simple majority in Parliament, and bluntly reaffirmed that the court is still tops...
Hearst-baiting, in fact, became a major occupation for the leftist groups in the middle thirties, when the Ethopian and Spanish conflicts drove deeper the wedge between right and left in the United States. The Socialist League's organ. The Student Herald, bitterly attacked Hearsts Record American for its 1935 pinkwash of the University's govern-department. One of the Student Herald's favorite gimmicks was a small advertisement in the CRIMSON, which read...
...Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...