Word: weaker
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...pregnancy. His measurement method: a strip of uterus from an elderly female rat is suspended in a solution containing pitocin and a patient's blood sample. If the patient's blood lacks pitocinase, the pitocin-stimulated uterus contracts vigorously. But if the patient is pregnant, contractions are weaker; they vary according to the amount of pitocinase present. An abortion or death of an embryo is detectable by a drop in the amount of pitocinase...
Nina Foch, a pretty and talented repatriate from Hollywood, tries hard to carry the show through its weaker moments, and is ably abetted by wry Tom Ewell and by Loring Smith, whose Senator McKinley is rather more credible than the current vogue. But the play's high spot was the curtain call comedy, and the Messrs. Rodgers and Hammerstein--backers this time--won't be able to count on enough of them to make it quite worthwhile...
...nations of the Americas have . . . learned from the history of this Hemisphere that unless an insurmountable barrier is imposed to intervention by powerful states in the affairs of weaker states, the rights and liberties of independent...
...anti-trade point into a principle in his criticism of an ECOSOC report calling for the economic coordination of Europe. He found that it "tends to favor the still greater development of highly developed countries." He presaged Molotov's warning that free trade destroyed the independence of weaker countries, adding: "I, for instance, believe that bilateral agreements are for the time being the best...
...ruthlessly suppressed): "We are not against any opposition movement which desires to assist in the reconstruction of the country." But, added Tito indignantly, the present opposition actually "seeks to profit by the mistakes we make." He made a grim prophecy: "I know [the opposition] will never become stronger, only weaker...