Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forget Nasser. The State Department and the British Foreign Office, not yet abandoning all hope of Kassem, put Kassem's action down to his desire to express solidarity with the Arab world. By withdrawing from the pact, Kassem freed himself from Nasser's accusation that Iraq was still allied to the "imperialist" West. To his assembled editors last week, Kassem suggested: "Forget Nasser. Do not waste time replying to criticism from abroad that does not bother...
Chronic Fear. The Poles, without Marshall Plan aid,* had little investment capital to put into the new area; they also had to pay cruel sums to the Russians. But above all, they had a chronic fear that the territories might become German again in some cold war East-West settlement (West Germany has publicly renounced the use of force to recover the area, but has not officially abandoned its designs...
Diefenbaker's year as undisputed boss has left a large mark on Canadian affairs. His "vision of the north" moved toward reality as plans were drafted for new roads, railroads, and air routes stretching into the mineral-rich northland. He improved Canada's social welfare system, put into effect a long-planned national hospitalization scheme. He tightened Canada's Commonwealth ties by a two-month good-will tour of Commonwealth capitals...
...glorious color, the naked princess is eviscerated, basted with sacred oil, and simmered in bouillon (cooking time: 70 days). Somehow, she must be brought back to life, but before the trick is turned, six writhing slave girls are put to the sword, the high priest's tongue is cut out, and he is buried alive...
...Heller's method was to set up a pulsed electromagnetic field (80-180 pulses per sec., 27 megacycles) between electrodes. When he put tiny bits of iron, carbon, silver, oil, fat, starch or mammalian cells on a glass slide between the electrodes, he found that any asymmetrical particle promptly turned so that its long axis lay along the lines of force. Groups lined up Indian-file, like iron scraps between magnetic poles. Microorganisms such as bacteria or protozoa were forced to travel in similar paths; they resumed swimming normally at random only when the power was turned...