Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full freedom of speech," but outside no party member (and presumably no private person) would have the right to express opinions which are out of harmony with party policy. This was a direct slap at his left supporters, whose "ideological confusion and revisionist tendencies," he said, "undermine unity and sow disbelief." Then Gomulka turned on the Stalinists: "Not only revisionism disarms the party-the same, though in a different way, results from dogmatism and conservatism...
...Sow's Ear. In 1921, to show clients what it could do, the company literally produced a silk purse out of a sow's ear,* has since turned out industrial ideas by the dozen. It helped develop Owens-Illinois' Fiberglas, a new kind of blast furnace for Republic Steel, American Viscose's rubber fiber Filastic. When Bristol-Myers' brushmaking subsidiary, Rubberset, could get no more hog bristles from Red China in 1950, A.D.L helped invent a chemical substitute from chicken feathers. Its special taste laboratory has aided dozens of U.S. foodmakers. Its smell laboratory, which...
...From Sow Ovaries. The chief drawback now is the scarcity of the raw material. There is no way of extracting relaxin from pocket gophers, and it is present in some bigger animals in only negligible quantities. But for some reason that researchers (including Dr. Hisaw, now at Harvard) have not fathomed, the ovaries of the pregnant sow are the best source. Fortunately some sows are pregnant when slaughtered,* and from 110,000 lbs. of sow ovaries a year the laboratories extract 100 ounces of Releasin. This is enough for seven injections for each of 18,000 patients-fewer than...
...turned out to be Chinese in Tibetan clothing. On the other side of the mountains, Red China is building a road toward Bhutan. To strengthen his government the King recently set up a Central Advisory Council composed of elders elected by tiny villages. Explained Jigme: "We have begun to sow a few seeds of democracy...
Since its face value is nil, and its implied usefulness is negative, the proposal should be sent the way of its predecessor. Those people who militate for curtailment of the Executive's power to conduct foreign relations must not be allowed to sow their seeds under the guise of a general and deceptively innocent constitutional amendment...