Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only 600 yards across the West River from the Portuguese colony of Macao lies a Red Chinese people's commune on Lappa Island, and across this narrow stretch of water last week could be seen a chilling glimpse behind the Bamboo Curtain...
Until last week, Lappa seemed a normal anthill commune. The docile and resigned women lived in the barracks nearest the water's edge; men lived further removed from the temptation of liberty, and Communist gunboats, constantly patrolling the river, discouraged anyone who might try to swim to freedom...
...sound carried across the water from the session of the "People's Court." It was like seeing a distant silent movie. From Macao, people watched in fascination until a squad of soldiers made the three prisoners rise, march across the parade ground. They were quickly lined up, then a volley of rifle fire cut them down. The commune members dispersed to their barracks...
...need massive blood transfusions can be saved by a chilling technique worked out by the University of Minnesota's Department of Surgery, reported its chief, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. The patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average of 25 cold-stomach hours to stop the bleeding...
...adviser to the U.S. military on cold weather survival, who was knighted by George V for his 1928 flight of 2,200 miles across the Arctic icecap, three years later navigated a submarine named the Nautilus beneath the icecap in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole under water; in Framingham, Mass. Wilkins learned his first lessons in cryogeography on an Arctic expedition with Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who taught him "to work like a dog and then eat the dog." Sir Hubert's 1928 flight from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen-made with Carl Ben Eielson-was the first...