Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snuggled into Penelope's burrow. Hope soared. But one day when the platypus keeper went to find Penelope, she was gone. She had apparently slithered under her wire-mesh roof. At week's end an unhappy posse at the Bronx Zoo was still scouting the 250-acre compound. They hoped that Penelope had not ended up in the Bronx River or the Jersey flats. Cecil just scratched his stomach and fed his ego. Where once there were two, he was now the only platypus in captivity-outside Tasmania and Australia...
...Know That . . ." Turning to the question of Red China's membership in the U.N., Dulles noted that the U.N. is not a "reformatory for bad governments . . ." Communist Russia, with veto power, already seriously limits'the U.N.'s peacemaking function, and Communist China in the U.N. would compound the damage. "Should a regime which in seven years has promoted five foreign or civil wars-Korea, Indo-China, Tibet, the Philippines and Malaya; which itself has fought the U.N. and which today stands condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor; which defies the U.N. decision to reunify Korea; which...
...money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from the poorest families in the village. With compound interest, by the time a girl of 26 has found her man, the value of each book will have grown to some $400, or enough to buy a few fertile acres...
...eliminate the static from synthetics so they will not cling to the skin and gather lint will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
...Like Russians. Then the real riot started. One demonstrator climbed the flagpole, ripped down the U.S. flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some...