Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the male hormone testosterone is believed to trigger eruptions of acne, some physicians have tried treatment with female hormones. But if these have any effect, they also feminize the boy patients. For this condition, as for strokes (TIME, Feb. 4) and for coronary atherosclerosis, researchers are trying to make a female hormone that does not feminize...
...offhandedness, the President's remark touched on the raw nerve ends of those who fear-and have volubly argued -that the little atom in little wars will trigger a Big-Atom World War III. Not so, says Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles in a carefully reasoned article in the February issue of Flying...
...first five hours of this. Security Council President Carlos Romulo wearily tried to shut Menon off, but the indefatigable Indian insisted that it would take him the better part of another session to finish his case. So far, Menon had kept his hair-trigger temper under control; but the following morning, when he discovered that the U.S. and four other powers were already circulating a resolution which began, "Having heard statements from representatives of the governments of India and Pakistan ..." Menon's control broke. In a fit of irritation he implied that Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon...
Your making a composite picture of a motley crew of trigger-happy poets, callow youths, delinquent teenagers, gun molls and other Hungarian riffraff and trying to foist them off on us Americans as the "Man of the Year" is a piece of journalism that is not only unique but should stand out as the acme of effrontery...
...prospect of reduced wages in plants where production fell below the "norm." As the strike developed, Soviet tanks and armored cars (guns uncovered for the first time in weeks) blocked off Budapest's factory area. When 5,000 Csepel Island iron and steel workers demonstrated in the streets, trigger-nervous Hungarian militiamen began shooting in the air, bounced a few volleys into the crowd. Casualties: two dead, at least four wounded. Two days later the Kadar government decreed the death penalty for strikers...