Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Dr. Strehler finally gets his fireflies collected, they will not be allowed to sparkle for long. He intends to detach their luminous posteriors and extract from them luciferin-a substance which fascinates many scientists...
...monopoly. Because it is much easier to spot a fake ad than to dig up evidence for a full-fledged antitrust suit, FTC has felt moved to skimp on its more important trustbusting job; it has recently used its august powers on such piddling tasks as telling 1) Northwestern Extract Co. to stop claiming that "Grape Sparkle" contains real grape juice, 2) a small greeting-card company to stop describing its cards as "plateless engraved," and 3) International Laboratories, Inc. to stop advertising that Moone's Emerald Oil will stop skin itch...
...rivalry and suspicion. While Stalin cut down and purged his rivals, Malenkov served him as personal secretary and snooper. The student technician of power had charge of all party dossiers in the middle and upper levels. He developed an astonishing memory, became a walking file from which Stalin could extract at any moment whatever record was needed to help along the ruthless struggle for power...
With the 1950 elections in the offing, the Democrats swore that their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner would be the most stupendous political clambake of all time-a combination revival meeting and war dance calculated not only to inflame the faithful and extract $100 from each, but to terrorize and stupefy the G.O.P. By the appointed night last week, there could be no denying that they had indeed engineered something almost comparable to the Burning of Rome...
...first remedies for this sickly set-up are sanity and common sense in the application of the immigration laws. But the laws themselves must be changed. Their wording is so strong that it often takes courage to extract and use the power of discretion that is nevertheless implied within them. If the law said that certain classes of aliens "may" be excluded, it would be easier to avoid such fumbles as the Emmanuel case...