Word: torpid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Aneurin Bevan, labor's hell-raising left-winger, quit the Attlee government last April, he has been working on a manifesto which, friends said, would inject new life into Britain's torpid socialism. Last week Bevan unveiled the manifesto. Title: One Way Only...
...three reasons: 1) Franco wants to establish better relations with the democratic world; 2) the Spanish people are increasingly restless under the Franco regime (TIME, March 19); 3) Spanish businessmen have long smarted under the rule of Minister of Industry and Commerce Juan Antonio Suances, who enforces a torpid, controlled economy in Spain. Rumored to go in the shakeup: Minister Suances...
...liver is a somewhat mysterious organ, e.g., nobody knows exactly why a man dies within 24 hours after the liver is removed. Far less was known in 1868, when Dr. Samuel Carter of Erie, Pa. compounded a formula which he thought was good for sick headache and torpid liver (both "positively cured"), also indigestion, constipation or what-ails...