Word: variants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Open Enthusiasm. The Kantan-gese invaders are drawn mainly from the Lunda tribe, traditionally among Central Africa's fiercest warriors. Shaba villagers have received them with open enthusiasm. Government troops, who speak Lingala-the language of the Congo River basin-rather than the local variant of Swahili, are, by contrast, feared and shunned...
...psychiatric and therapeutic assault on sexually variant people is an ugly embarrassment to modern psychology. It is unnecessary to provide a lurid detailed account of past therapeutic attacks upon individual dignity. It is sufficient to state for the record that these forms of therapeutic aggression have ranged from psychic attack (i.e., deliberate attempts to increase guilt, lower self concept, etc.) through varieties of chemical and electrical aversive conditioning, to actual cases of brain surgery and legal castration. The record of these abuses of clinical psychology and psychiatry is thoroughly documented by Tripp and Nicholas Kittrie, author of The Right...
...Palestine Liberation Organization sat mesmerized by the show. Uganda army bagpipers in Royal Stuart tartan kilts marched by implausibly tootling Scotland the Brave. Undaunted by the number of invitations declined-notably by Henry Kissinger -the 300-lb. dictator exuberantly grabbed a spear and joined dancers in a local variant of the jig. After a speech in which he denounced the "Zionists and international bandits" who had visited Entebbe airport uninvited last July, Amin awarded 2,000 medals to soldiers, civil servants and relatives. Among those honored were his latest wife Sarah, 20, and his son Mwanga, 6, who appeared...
What did finally help Siegel was a new variant of an old emergency surgical procedure: the tracheotomy−cutting an opening into the windpipe and thus totally bypassing the blocked breathing passage. First introduced in apnea a decade ago, such operations . have now been performed on about 30 Americans at the 20 U.S. sleep centers now in existence. The procedure is relatively simple, but leaves the patient with a hole in his throat...
Step Toward Bliss. Such persistence is not hard to fathom. The Dalai Lama is, after all, believed to be the very reincarnation of the Buddha in Buddhism's Tibetan variant. To see him during one of his rare public appearances is a step toward bliss. To hear the Wheel of Time sermon, however, is a guaranteed shortcut to nirvana. Such a blessing is rarely available. A Dalai Lama delivers the sermon only a few times during his lifetime, six being the customary maximum. At Leh, the current Dalai Lama was delivering his sixth sermon...