Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Reds launched a nuisance offensive against Western Germany. For several days & nights last week, some 30,000 Red agitators and members of Red youth organizations had been crossing from East Germany into the Western zones. Many carried forged documents showing they were "refugees." Their task: to stage "blitz rallies" against the Western powers in West German cities, cause disorder, confusion and fear. The expense accounts of these Red traveling salesmen, reported Socialist Kurt Schumacher, were met from the proceeds of a vast coffee black market operated by the Russians in their occupation zone...
...Communists were more successful in Hamburg, where 3,000 Reds managed to stage a noisy demonstration before they were stopped by police. Sixteen policemen were injured...
Southern Exposure is one of those little jobs that lay everything on too thick and yet seem pathetically thin. The spoofing is as primitive as the objects of it are genteel; the romance, though it would seem recklessly swift in real life, seems endless on the stage. But the root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good...
Having mobilized the defense forces of the body, the alarm reaction is followed by a stage of increased resistance to whatever stress caused the alarm. For example, a man whose nerves have been frazzled by incessant hammering reaches a point where he seems not to notice it. But it has taken its toll: if he is subjected to another abnormal stress, he has far less resistance to meet the new threat...
Finally, even resistance wears out. Then the system reaches the stage of exhaustion. This was what Dr. Selye had found in his rats in 1936, shown by enlarged and overactive adrenals, wasted thymus and bleeding ulcers. But exhaustion, the last phase, may produce many other "diseases of adaptation," notably some types of high blood pressure, several kidney diseases, rheumatoid and gouty arthritis...