Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Leap Forward (1958-60), with its preposterous backyard pig-iron furnaces and bureaucratic romance of communal farms, left the country in depression and famine. Less than a decade later came the Cultural Revolution, a three-year Maoist spasm of revolutionary zeal against the onset of complacency and bureaucracy. The Cultural Revolution dislocated nearly every institution of Chinese life, many of which still have not recovered. A case can be made that Mao lived too long. The Great Revolutionary died at 82, an enfeebled puppet. His legacy, after the Cultural Revolution, was a ramshackle economy, a badly equipped military...
...areas hardest hit by the turbulence of the Cultural Revolution was science/technology; the finest minds were sent to the country to learn egalitarianism and pig farming. Intellectuals until recently were branded as "stinking persons of the ninth category...
...After a few days of business talks in New York, he packed his winter clothes and a new tube of toothpaste and flew to London, where, according to his contract with Grade, the TV series must be taped. Within hours of his arrival, shooting had started. Several of the pig Muppets had started an off-camera fight but had been quelled. Guest Star Harry Belafonte had overcome his initial queasiness at working with shaggy short people and had sung The Banana Boat Song with spirit, even though Cap tain Link Hogthrob pigged one of the bananas...
...Snyder then went on to map the distribution of the receptors in the brain. Kosterlitz and Hughes expanded on the research. They wondered why the body should evolve receptors for foreign narcotics; perhaps the body produced its own opiates. In 1975 they discovered and isolated two such compounds from pig brains and dubbed them enkephalins (from the Greek words for in the head...
...that the currently available, highly purified preparations of pig and beef insulin are satisfactory so that there is no medical need for human insulin...