Word: suppressant
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...clung tenaciously to the Foreign Ministry, explaining: "If I leave, the rightists will get a minister of their choice who will return to a policy of force. This will make the fortune of the German nationalists." At tending a bullfight in Spain, Briand reacted like a polished diplomat, observing, "Suppress the matador, the picadors and the toreadors and let me go into the arena with a little bundle of hay, and you will see that I'll make peace with the bull...
Matched Blood. For a week, Davis was dosed with three potent drugs that suppress the body's natural tendency to reject any "foreign" protein. In Tulane University's colony of primates, hematologists checked the blood group of Adam, an 80-lb. chimpanzee about seven years old. It was type A, like Davis'. On the appointed day, Davis and Adam lay in operating rooms on opposite sides of the street. At the School of Medicine, Adam was anesthetized, and his temperature was dropped to 90°. Then a surgeon removed the animal's two kidneys along with...
When they concentrated on their own work, the U.S. surgeons had a hot time over a cool, cool question: Is it a good thing to freeze the human stomach to suppress the nagging pain of duodenal ulcer and-hopefully-to heal the ulcer...
...gush of half-baked period revivals, and the history of 19th century costume shows quite the same dependence on the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the rococo period, Catherine de Medici and James II. In the architecture of our own time, the compulsion to expose structure to view, to suppress applied ornament and emphasize texture, to express class through refinements of structure-these modes of thought are just as evident in women's clothing. The creators of the unpatterned, severely structured, richly textured dresses of our own era inevitably think in a way that also produced the United Nations...
Prosecutor Pace and other county, city and state officers were given until January by the court to prepare their defense on charges that they engaged in a conspiracy to suppress the civil rights movement in Americus by imposing the insurrection charge. If the action against them succeeds, it would become a precedent that could be used throughout the South to foil official suppression of civil rights activities...