Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Merck & Co., principal manufacturers of cortisone, took full-page ads in the New York Times, Herald Tribune and other metropolitan newspapers to explain: "The shortage is actually caused by a problem more fundamental than black-marketing. This problem is one of supply. Merck is producing enough Cortone [their...
Singapore), larger and more elegant homes, wild and lavish partying. They win & lose tens of thousands of dollars at mah-jongg and soo-sek (a game like rummy). Aw Boon Haw, the fabulous "Tiger Balm King," has added a nightmarish swimming pool to his huge Singapore residence; on the bottom...
Ryan called Mather a "pedant" whom the priest believed was "unqualified to be presented at the banquet." "However competent this man may be as a geologist," he continued, "he lacks any concept whatsoever of the evil forces that are engulfing the world and bringing suffering and death to tens and...
There is no chance of making whole blood artificially. It contains many delicate chemicals, each of which fills some requirement of the body. Its living cells cannot be duplicated. If the patient has been bleeding seriously, either internally or externally, he needs the corpuscles as well as the fluid. Radiation...
There was consternation in Washington. The President ordered State and Defense to re-examine U.S. positions around the globe and report to him exactly what needed to be done. Acheson himself was named boss of the project, which finally produced a massive document dubbed NSC (for National Security Council) 68...