Word: pow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption in his pow...
...anxiety to head off a Communist drive for control of their country, and had accepted virtual annexation by Egypt as the only way out. Said Iraq's irascible old Nuri asSaid: "You don't have union when one of the countries is erased." Nasser's terms-pow er to impose a single party and choose its leader, to extirpate other parties-were clearly designed to allow Nasser to crack down on Syrian Communists as hard as he has on his own. Already Nasser's house-cleaning was under way. Syria's Communist Party Chief Khaled...
Speaking to a financial pow-wow in Chicago, Eugene R. Black, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, made one of the more sanguine statements of the Sputnik period: "My first reaction to the earth satellites was to ask myself the question: If intelligent life is found on other planets, will the people there be borrowers or investors? Of course, if they are investors, there may lie the solution of all my money-raising problems...
...Hong Kong's Dr. Pow Meng Yap found that, among schizophrenic Chinese, "customary beliefs have a strong molding influence on the clinical picture. Among our patients were four who showed clearly the syndrome of ghost possession. This is understandable in light of the tradition of ancestor worship." Dr. Yap's overall summation: secondary symptoms vary in accordance with culture, but "the primary symptoms of schizophrenia-especially the tendency to withdraw-are identical around the world, and it is thus truly a universal disease...
...clear formula was essential for informing soldiers of the POW's obligations, its lone ingredient--resistance--helps perpetuate the horror that soldiers face in Communist prison camps. While the code directs men to resist enemy interrogation to "the utmost of their ability," the Defense Advisory Committee report behind the code informs GIs and all potential enemies that prisoners will not be prosecuted if they yield to torture. Captors know they can extract signed confessions--but only by applying irresistable pressure...