Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi medico was very candid. The Institute had been established after the Germans took Kiev in 1941. Its human material included schizophrenics, Jews, foreigners, gypsies. Each doctor on the staff "processed" about 100 persons per working day with injections of morphine tartrate. Explained Dr. Schuebbe: the subject showed "breathing difficulties and a shrinking of the eye pupils; the face assumed a blue color; there was sporadic breathing; then a breathing stoppage and a heart stoppage. Exitus lethalis...
...three, the canvases of Swiss-born Paul Klee (1879-1940) were the most recognizable. Concealed in his childlike scrawling was many a suggestion of reality (shadowy trees, clouds, heads); much of his work possessed simplicity, sharpness and humor, and a spontaneity as fresh as a candid camera shot...
...isolated experiment of giving supplemental vitamins to 200 people over a one-month period is not news that is clear, candid or concise [TIME, Dec. 4]. When scientists speak of vitamins having "demonstrable effects" they speak in terms of years, lifetimes and even generations...
From the beginning of the war the Army's public relations have often been far from candid. Samples were the story of the tragic shooting down of U.S. airborne troops by friendly antiaircraft batteries off Sicily which the Army and the Navy covered up for eight months; the Patton soldier-slapping affair, suppressed until it had built up so much steam it almost blew the dome off the Capitol. Another sample was the sour finale to Merrill's Marauders (TIME, Aug. 14). A more recent one: the handling of the production-slump story, which, instead of rousing...
...proposal for a Western Bloc, which many Britons want but do not want to talk about, bounced up onto the floor of the House of Commons last week. It was tossed there by candid, portly Leslie Hore-Belisha, former Secretary of State for War, who urged the House to consider "an offer by Belgium to give us some kind of strategic outposts and economic outposts as well, similar to those we give the United States in the West Indies...