Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolution," he said after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1957. "The trick, once the revolution has been staged, is winning public approval." On doctor's orders, he went on the wagon, began housecleaning Thailand from top to bottom. He banned opium smoking, and when a rash of fires broke out in Bangkok's business district one winter, he ordered four Chinese merchants shot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year was now taboo...
Technically Simple. The Minneapolis surgeons do not try to make a substitute ileocecal valve; it would be too difficult, they say, and it does not seem to be necessary. The operation is technically simple, but to guard against a rash of premature operations performed unwisely all over the country, Dr. Buchwald emphasized that surgical teams in university medical centers should keep a monopoly on the procedure for a few years. It will take at least a year, he said, to be sure that the operation's effectiveness in lowering blood cholesterol is reasonably permanent, and four or five years...
...editor, Emile Gauvreau,* to implement the pledge of "90% entertainment and 10% news." Gauvreau accumulated circulation "by pushing into the back of my mind all that I had learned about the value of constructive news" and by studying the techniques of the News. The Mirror continued to reflect a rash of stunts calculated to hook the reader: Yo-Yo contests, picture puzzles, yards of crime coverage in an era when New York streets rang with the din of gang wars. By 1932, Mirror circulation passed 500,000. But the News passed...
...plan, old Trujillo landlords would have been forbidden to plead their cases in court. Although Bosch advisors privately considered the new laws unconstitutional, practical politics offered no alternative: the land holding elite controlled the courts and the courts were stalling land reform. Property owners immediately envisioned a rash of confiscations...
...favorite forms of fun. About the only peacetime substitute is a good riot-and riots just don't happen every day of the week. They are beginning to happen on Labor Day weekend, though, regularly enough to constitute a new teen-age folkway. This year's rash of riots included...