Word: stimulus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allowed to sleep in an "unbearably" cold tent with insufficient blankets, Singh was awakened for another interrogation of 9½ hours and told he would not get adequate shelter until the examination was concluded to Chinese satisfaction. With this stimulus to speed and agreement, Singh gave precise details of the arms, function and organization of India's border patrols, his own operations prior to the ambush, and the location of Indian check posts throughout Ladakh. As a reward, he got some padded cotton clothing, which did not fit. At this point the Chinese set out to rewrite history...
...good time to buy major household appliances and new cars, undertake large home improvements. The survey pointed out that some part of the public must be getting used to prices once considered "too high," but it warned businessmen that the economy still lacks-and could use-the positive stimulus of prices that most people view as "reasonable...
Although the institution's magnificent physical facilities do not head the list of Harvard's virtues, they are a powerful stimulus to mental activity. At this point of my stay, I have scarcely seen half of the buildings; but I know the colossal libraries alone lure one into a thousand intellectual vistas, and then tease him into endless ventures of the mind. And finally, the cool, green, quiet campus completes the University's cordial invitation to study in this academic Paradise...
Last week doctors and hospital administrators on both sides of the Atlantic were debating whether mother had to desert Laura. Stimulus in the U.S. was publication of Robertson's book, Young Children in Hospitals (Basic Books; $3), arguing that hospital restrictions on visits to child patients are needlessly damaging, and that with a child under five, mother should be allowed to go into the hospital and stay-even if it means sleeping on a cot beside the child's crib. Britain's Ministry of Health accepted the idea and declared in a special report: "This...
...solid is the foundation, in fact, that it has a waiting list of French teachers and a constant flow of applications from Lakewood boys and girls who want more stimulus than they get in school. But the foundation's sincerest compliment has come from Lakewood's public-school system itself. Last fall, after the foundation's success with teaching French to children, the Lakewood public schools tentatively introduced Spanish, French and German to a selected group of seventh-graders. The program is working out so well that next fall these languages will be offered to all seventh...