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...mainly effective against only one type of polio--bulbar polio. This variety of the disease attacks the bulb at the base of the skull where the nerve center is located. The EPR takes over for the disturbed nerve center and substitutes its own steady breathing impulses for the weak, irregular ones from the brain...
...same token, Barnhart never defines a word with others more complicated or rare. Adjoin is not "to lie contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
...inefficiency of Chiang's government of a regime "without faith in itself " of Nationalist armies that "did not have to be defeated; they disintegrated." There was some opposition in the department to issuing the White Paper, and even Philip Jessup has since admitted that it was a highly irregular piece of diplomacy. The one reason for issuing it was to provide Acheson's State Department with an alibi for its share in China's tragic disaster...
...Century B.C. Clausewitz: "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he escapes, we harass. When he retreats, we pursue. When he is tired, we attack." For comrades everywhere he wrote a military treatise, Strategic Problems (published in Yenan in 1941), that probably ranks as a classic on irregular warfare. Its precepts boldly give directions for destroying "an enemy 20 times our number...
...house in New Hampshire, a big, comfortable modernized farmhouse on 65 acres of rolling land, sees him only at irregular intervals. The farm, which he enjoys in a baffled sort of way but can seldom stand for more than a few days at a time, is Mrs. Capp's particular pride & joy and is headquarters for their three children, Julie Ann, 17, Catherine Jan, 14, and Colin Cameron, 6. Though Capp sometimes talks his wife into spending stretches of weeks in Manhattan, she is a woman "who gets sleepy at n o'clock" and pines...