Word: responding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chemical name: Allopregnane-3 beta, 17 alpha, 21-triol-n, 20-dione. *Which is growing steadily. Newest use: Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins reported last week in Seattle that girls who show marked outward signs of masculinity (pseudo-hermaphrodites) respond magically to small doses of the hormone. They shed facial hair, develop curves in right places, seem to become feminine in every...
...moment, Uncle Earl chose not to respond to Nephew Russell's heresy. But, barred by law from succeeding himself as governor, he was toying with the idea of running for lieutenant governor and towing a governor of his own choice on his coattails. Besides, he said, being lieutenant governor is "the best job in the state. He can go hunting or fishing any time he wants to. He gets $7,500 a year, a house to live in, an expense account equal to the governor's-and groceries...
...long time that the photochemical action in the rods is connected in some way with a red substance, rhodopsin, which forms in the rods when the light gets dim. This is how eyes become "dark-adapted." Only when their rods are well fortified with rhodopsin can they respond to faint glimmers of light...
Incense & Salamanders. Red China, which had been invited but did not respond until after the closing date for entries, sent nine "observers," who presented the federation with an engraved enamel incense burner and a red silk banner inscribed: "We wish the first Asian games success and the physical education workers of Asia to unite and strive for peace in Asia and all the world." They gave each team a blue flower vase, a set of Communist magazines called People's Pictorial, pictures of Mao Tse-tung, and on the closing night they gave a huge party. The Japanese...
...couch reading the paper; he put the mail on the floor and asked her to move over. Vag opened the book; it said "Career" again. He quickly turned the page and this one said "Dedication." "In few other countries in the world could the forces of business . . . respond with such independent choice to a new idea . . . they can . . . guide this group of young men toward the correct choice of their individually and independently chosen vocations . . ." They meant Vag, evidently. They were helping him make the choice. He started leafing through the book...