Word: potentes
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Throughout his research career Pappenheimer has retained a keen interest in infectious disease. In particular, the diphtheria bacillus has fascinated him. This microscopic organism produces one of the most potent poisons known in biology. The toxin is, in fact, so powerful that a few molecules of it suffice to kill a cell. An easily made by product of the toxin, diphtheria toxoid, is harmless and serves as an excellent immunizing agent. With the virtually universal immunization of children in Europe and the United States, diphtheria has been "licked" in the medical sense. But it still provides many challenging biological questions...
...National Interest." Goldberg came armed with a potent weapon. President Kennedy, he said, felt that a strike settlement was required "in the national interest." Key to the truce: management and the three striking unions led by the Seafarers agreed to delay a decision as to which side should fix the size of work crews; they would wait a year for recommendations from an Eisenhower-appointed commission on railroad work rules, headed by former Labor Secretary James Mitchell...
Insecurity Forever. At acting school and later in stock, Berman appeared in everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Charley's Aunt. Classmate Geraldine Page remembers Shelley's "potent personality, which sometimes bent the plays out of focus." As the clerk in Saint Joan, "he was so startlingly effective you thought it became almost a play about...
Four of the eight Mapai members defied Ben-Gurion; three others-including Moshe Dayan, one of the accused-said they would abstain. Foreign Minister Golda Meir, a potent force in Mapai, grew so angry that she wrote out her resignation, was persuaded to withdraw it, and then stalked out of the meeting. So did angry Prime Minister Ben-Gurion. By a vote of no, the remaining ministers cleared Pinhas Lavon...
Clarkson is one of the favorites for Eastern honors this year, but Weiland rates the game a toss-up. Leading the Golden Knights tonight at Potsdam will be Bill Little, team captain, who plays right wing on one of Clarkson's most potent lines in recent years. Sophomore Harold Petterson centers the line, and "Soupy" Campbell, veteran senior, handles left wing. Clarkson has been in action since Nov. 5 (six games ago), and is by now a fairly polished outfit...