Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute with Cambodia, and another to help the fledgling republic of Guinea in 1959. Last week he applied the same technique in Laos...
...about it. And my son John found the icebox locked at night and was outraged. I think I know good food if I stop to think about it, but too often I do not stop to think about it, so I know I'm no great help to a housekeeper...
Through a Cone. After ten years of study, Avco scientists built a laboratory model MHD that produces 10 kw. of 55-volt electricity. This is hardly enough to run a gadget-filled kitchen, but ten big U.S. power companies have now joined with Avco to help develop MHD generators big enough to supply commercial power. A major advantage: an MHD generator has no primary moving parts, with the exception of those in the relatively simple compressor...
...small wonder that most patients died. In 1678 the French Parliament banned transfusions. Nowadays, no doctor would dream of transfusing animal blood to man. But last week, the medical world was again agog over a report that Italian physicians had used a sheep's blood to help clear the system of a woman dying of mercury poisoning...
...secondary schools." With curriculums in ferment across the country, "notes of boyish idealism" were not uncommon among men in their 505. They forecast exciting opportunities in TV courses, team teaching, counseling. They urged Amherst students to enter a profession "on the way up," suggested that Amherst could thereby help "deflate the grey-flannel success myth" prevalent at "provincial" Ivy League colleges. One prep-school teacher asked: "What other job would pay me to play squash every afternoon? In what other position could I sit around evenings reading Conrad, without neglecting what I should be doing...