Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...span of time required for synthesis has significance in the study of cell metabolism--that process by which foodstuffs are made available for use by the body. Cell metabolism, in turn, is related to problems of cancer, uncontrolled cell growth...
Struggling free, the Begum screamed for help, began throwing anything handy at the frenzied bodyguard. In turn, Abdullah hurled a heavy glass ashtray at the Begum, missed, and then was at her again, still shrieking: "Fein sidi!" The uproar brought the Begum's Swiss secretary from next door, and the hotel porter and the chef d'étage came stumbling into the bedroom, pulled Abdullah off the nearly strangled Begum, hustled him outside. A doctor was summoned, and the police...
China's overriding economic problem is not its scarcity of resources but its oversupply of people. Population, now put at 653 million, is increasing by about 15 million a year. At this rate, there will be a billion Chinese by 1980, more than 2 billion by the turn of the century. In terms of per-capita production, Mao's China still lags far behind Japan or Formosa (see chart). Worse yet, despite mammoth irrigation and reclamation projects, population growth has cut the amount of cultivated land per person in Red China from .462 acres...
BERLIN, Nov. 28--Mayor Willy Brandt today won firm backing from Western leaders in his fight against the Soviet attempt to turn West Berlin into an unarmed neutral city...
...President cannot realize that inadequate expenditures for development programs are even more wasteful than no expenditure at all, the Congress must. The United States cannot afford to gamble that Russia and China will suddenly collapse or that Khrushchev's ambitious plans will turn into colossal failures. To meet the appeal of Communism's economic successes, we must demonstrate the vitality of a democratic system. Unless the Congress will undertake to plan this demonstration, the free world stands to lose the 900 million people of the uncommitted nations. The West cannot afford such a loss...