Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese, so often accused of slavish copying, are capable of adding their own fantastic variations to what they borrow. Take parliamentary government, for example...
...offshore islands (TIME. Sept. 22). Scarcely had these demonstrations reached the proper pitch of hysteria when Peking did an about-face, proclaimed first a cease-fire and then its present senseless policy of shelling Quemoy only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take the islands, it could kill innocent people on them at will. "Some Communists may not yet understand this," conceded a government directive which Western experts thought bore the markings of having been written by Mao himself. But, added the directive. "You will understand after a while, comrades...
...returned,* hot objections were rolling across the islands. Adams did not budge; concession or not, he said, "the federal government can levy its own income tax after five years and make it retroactive." Such a statement could easily scare off Refinery Builder St. Hilaire, and Jamaica did not take it quietly. Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Manley said that if the federal government even thinks about voiding Jamaican deals, "Jamaica would be forced to reconsider her position in regard to federation itself." Last week Manley's top political opponent, rabble-rousing Sir William Alexander Bustamante, put it even more bluntly...
...death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive' in a death certificate. [That] is to judge the habits of one's fellow men. That must be the province of the coroner." Coroner Milne's verdict: death from natural causes...
...Science and Technology report on an antler taken on the Island of Islay in 1957. It proved to have 126 micromicrocuries of strontium radioactivity per gram of calcium. A cross section cut from it and laid on X-ray film for 82 days gave off enough atomic radiation to take a sharp picture of itself. For contrast, an antler that grew in the same place in 1952, before the H-bomb tests, showed only 11.2 micromicrocuries of radioactivity...