Word: antisepticized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Welch's protagonist comes to, first of all, is the noisy antiseptic indignity of life in a hospital ward. Patients are frenzied or conniving; doctors hearty and indifferent. Drifting in and out of fantasies, he plods a painful path from demi-death to limited life. Welch's...
Another big asset is that the Enterprise has no smokestacks. On oil-burning carriers, acidic smog combined with salt-air corrosion necessitates ceaseless cleaning of aircraft and equipment. On the clinically antiseptic nuclear carrier, 15 to 20% fewer man-hours are required for corrosion control. The lack of stacks also...
Winemakers in Reims, Epernay, Tours-sur-Marne and other towns in the Champagne district of France last week observed a familiar three-century tradition. In antiseptic rooms, committees of tasters eyed, sniffed and sipped six-month-old white wine, neatly spit out each taste into marble basins. Testing 25 to...
A change is also under way to tidy up the practice of gardening, make it as simple and antiseptic as picture taking. Begonias now come ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and...
It wasn't what I had come to see, his antiseptic room furnished in vintage 1955 motel vinyl, when I decided to try and psyche out the private life of Boston's number one rock 'n' roll radio station. After a year and a half of fairly constant listening to...