Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later Vishinsky got to his feet and, in a monotone, for 75 minutes accused the U.S. of "bluster, blackmail and pressure" in Korea, retold the "germ warfare" tale, and charged that U.S. "billionaires" are bent on more & more bloodshed to swell their billions. Midway through, Acheson removed his earphones for a few minutes, and some delegates began leaving...
...Peking, where loyal Communists and gullible fellow travelers were subjected to hours of oratory at the Asian and Pacific Peace Conference, cold war, not cold peace, prevailed. The Communists, mixing threats and benedictions in lunatic proportions, charged America with "germ warfare" and unloosing a "new world war," then switched and offered the same America "peaceful co-existence...
...last witness apparently had no such desire to cooperate. Columbia Anthropologist Gene (The Races of Mankind) Weltfish refused to say whether she was ever a Communist, and she emphatically denied that she had recently accused the U.S. of using germ warfare in Korea. All she had done, she said, was to call a press conference and hand out an affidavit made by the Rev. Dr. James Endicott, chairman of the Communist-front Canadian Peace Congress. What did the affidavit charge? That the U.S. was using germ warfare in Korea. Did she know Dr. Endicott personally? No, but she "believed...
Played in an imaginary 19th century principality, the picture is dressed up with lavish sets and up-to-date allusions to airplanes, submarines, germ warfare and atomic power. There are also a number of pseudo-slapstick chases-e.g., at the climax, Mephisto, menaced by an angry mob because his alchemistic gold has turned to sand, vanishes once & for all in a puff of smoke...
...Sudanese beauty who bore him nine children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud, splashed and scrapped in the germ-laden waters of the Blue Nile with the barefoot village boys, played soldiers in the muddy fields where the fellahin raised their cotton crops, and learned the timeless songs of the water-carriers...