Word: weal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flag tells price of nation's weal...
This leaves a residue of perhaps two million typists and filing clerks who have scarcely more opportunity to affect the national weal than their counterparts at Sears Roebuck's. Even if a good percentage of them were Muscovite zealots, they could still be no more effective than their fellow employees' morale allowed. The Presidential and Republican pretense that the more exposure of Federal workers to such employees' Marxism means automatic conversion, is something less than believable. The question here is academic, of course, because few modern Communists publicize their affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch...
Then came the announcement. On many of the secondary issues, the Generalissimo and Communist Mao were hearteningly close. But on the primary issues, the issues basic to China's national weal, they were still far apart...
Quid-chompin' "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, 71, scraggly-mustached onetime Governor of Oklahoma, has written a book called The Finished Scholar, with a special chapter on etiquette. He explained: "If a few did not write and make the sacrifices . . . deny themselves for the future weal . . . society would wreck itself...
...gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections of it from a foreign source...