Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine." The border countries are "like lice in our clothing," said another speaker, who demanded they be "cleansed." Asked about the Red general's remarks, Nehru commented: "It would...
...mostly as a buffer against his own ennui. Save for a glorious hour at the outbreak of the first World War, when Bennett resolutely published under the German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades played the role of society paper for expatriates, subject to Bennett's iron whim (without giving a reason, he ordered a letter from an "old Philadelphia lady," inquiring how to convert centigrade readings to Fahrenheit,* reprinted daily for 18 years...
Psychologist Brothers (who has never had a practice of her own) works hard accumulating the knowledge she rattles off so smoothly. Before she answers any letters, she consults available periodicals and her own 1,500-book library. "I read everything I can get my hands on on the subject," says she. "Then I condense it and put it into layman's language. There's so much that's been done in the psychiatric area that just isn't available to the average person. I act as translator and make it available...
Thus encouraged, the researchers found another volunteer, 54 and blind since birth. His discomfort was more severe than the first subject's, but his case also yielded more knowledge: sulfadiazine, taken by mouth, cured his infection...
...social climbing. The life of the salons provides Author Painter with the most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied, "I'm so sorry; I prepared incest by mistake...