Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowded into Nairobi's Makadara Hall, some 4,000 Negroes cheered lustily as Kenya's Labor Leader Tom Mboya cried: "We reject a government which is based on an imposed constitution. No one will hand us freedom on a silver platter. We must be prepared to use our power-not guns and pangas-to achieve...
...waited the call to a general strike and armed attacks, the usual wave of bombings and skirmishes gave way to ominous silence. Batista made ready for the showdown by asking his obedient Congress to vote him emergency powers, including the right to impose martial law, govern by decree, and use troops to meet any strike...
...piece which would test the "untapped melodic resources" of the drums. The technical problems, he discovered, were sizable. Examples: how to pass rapidly from one drum, fortissimo, to another, without the resonance of the first canceling out the pitch of the second (part of the solution was to use a medium-padded drumstick); how to allow the tympanist enough time between solo passages for retuning (the hot concert-hall lights tend to raise drum pitch, while the audience's body moisture in the air lowers...
...British doctors described last week an extraordinary case of the medical use of hypnosis, in which the patient held himself in unnatural and seemingly most uncomfortable positions for a total of seven weeks, with nary a complaint. The case history, as reported by Psychiatrist Denys Kelsey and Surgeon John N. Barron in the British Medical Journal: a man of 24 had lost part of his right foot in an accident; to help repair the damage, skin was to be grafted in two stages-first from his abdomen to his left forearm, then to the foot. The surgeons feared that...
...Confessions. The Augustinian monk named Martin Luther had no intention of founding Lutheranism-either in fact or in name. In 1522. when some of his followers referred to themselves as Lutherans, he wrote: "Please do not use my name; do not call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians . . . The doctrine is not mine; I have not been crucified for anyone . . . Why should I, a miserable bag of worms, give my meaningless name to Christ's children?'' Only later, when Roman Catholics used the term as an insult, did Luther consent to let his name be applied to those...