Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clothes, dust the same bookcases and change the same diapers." A "Krauss hint" for an easier life: mothers in a neighborhood should pool their children so only one mother at a time need watch them. Another: tots should be parked in bigger backyard playpens and not be permitted to interrupt chores even when they start to howl. Said Bachelor Krauss expansively: let them howl. And would he have a try at playing housewife over again? Said he, wincing: "Not unless you can catch me and tie me down...
...break open a packet of the magazines, then, before clearing any other cargo, they give a copy of TIME to the palace messenger. He rushes it to President Juscelino Kubitschek's secretary, João Luis, who delivers it immediately to the President, even if he has to interrupt a conference...
...noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown of the already bleach-cleaned barracks, then decided to interrupt it with the night march-a form of stern discipline that had helped make a Marine out of many another boot...
Trial & Error. Although Cameron and his colleagues have come to agree that all cancer cells must have a common vulnerability, the search for a killer drug has been costly, timeconsuming. It is likely that only when the chemical peculiarities of cancer cells are known, said Cameron, "can we interrupt the process for reproduction by interposing chemicals to block the cancer cell's required 'food.' " Currently, researchers must apply one chemical compound after another to each of a dozen types of animal tumors. Once a drug seems effective, it is put through an exhaustive series of tests...
...each of these long periods the minority party has been able of course to interrupt the rule of the majority party for short intervals. Indeed, as the problems raised by new developments began to shoulder aside those earlier ones which gave form and shape to the movement itself, the interruptions tended to become more frequent. As the maturing movement loses its fervor, new personalities may give the minority party temporary advantages; long years in office may lead to a lethargy and lowering of standards in the party which was first to identify itself with the general consensus...