Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed for years), the Government encouraged five companies to start making the metal. Shoved along too fast, the untried metal soon developed many bugs. The first unalloyed titanium proved too brittle in aircraft; it tore easily, and fatigued at temperatures above 900°F. One 200,000-lb. batch was thrown out because it was-too hard to machine. Titanium parts in engines failed in flight...
Hand Laundry. In Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Catherine Moore complained to police that a thief who had swiped newly washed clothes from her clothesline had stolen a new batch, left the first lot soiled...
Greatest variation is in the accompanying rites. Among some tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse...
...Surgery Uses It. Today purified natural forms of curare and also synthetic varieties are available to medicine. Unlike the Indians' brews, they do not vary in strength from batch to batch. Since their effects are precisely measurable and predictable, surgeons use them to relax muscles by blocking the transmission of impulses from nerves, but stopping well short of the Indians' desired end point-where the muscles of breathing are denied signals from the brain's respiratory center, causing death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal...
...Sicilian locale to 19th-century Spanish-American Texas. (This is not a wholly new idea, for the Brattle Theatre production here two summers ago was laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican Hat Dance...