Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closer to the Masses. In the current dispute Mao talks of wooing the intellectuals and bringing the party closer to the masses, while Chou and Liu contend that letting all flowers bloom is a serious and heretical mistake, and that the counter-rectification drive must continue until every "rightist" weed has been rooted out. Last week Peng Chen, the mayor of Peking and a protege of Liu Shao-chi's, stated the anti-Mao case with singular vehemence. "The struggle against rightists," said Peng, "is a major question of right or wrong, good or evil. It is a question...
...Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine marched for three hours). They poured by the thousands over the central plains, coursing over highways that shouted with signs ("See Harold Warp's Pioneer Village at Minden, Nebraska," and "SNAKES!"), conjured up technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community of Intercourse, Pa. (just three miles this side of Paradise-pop. 549) missed the chance to mail some sure...
...more than 200 pop songs (Seven Lonely Days, Banjo's Back in Town), a former trombone and bass player and the holder of a graduate degree in music from Columbia. Hired to teach instrumental music in Farmingdale, he persuaded the high school five years ago to let him weed out the best players from the concert band and train them as a jazz group. "I felt," he says, "that the standard band repertory was too limited and that we were neglecting the most important native music we Americans have." He assigned tyros to instruments that seemed to echo their...
...unnecessary hazard, and the news of the birth was kept from the public to avoid a rush of photographers. Now the worst is over. Mother Irumu suckles her baby three times a day with undeviated maternalism, but refuses if humans are near. Ebola has grown like a weed, more than doubling her weight in three weeks. Assistant Director Vullier, watching fondly, says: "We think we have saved little Ebola, but of course with animals one never knows...
Quit Smoking? Even after a man has been a heavy cigarette smoker for many years, he can still reduce his risk of premature death by kicking the habit, declared Hammond and Horn. After a man had been off the weed for a year or more, his prospects improved; among men who had quit light smoking (less than a pack a day) ten or more years previously, the death rate from most causes was scarcely greater than among lifetime nonsmokers; ten years after heavier smoking, it was 50% greater-and markedly higher from lung cancer...