Word: beaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEATER OF CRUELTY. To demonstrate a new type of insulating foil, Union Carbide places a baby chicken in a small foil-lined metal box and then lowers it into a beaker of boiling water. Several long moments later, out pops the chick, frisky and unfried. The initial plunge is not exactly Grand Guignol, but it does provide a bit of a shock. A recent spot for American Motors shows a gang of men demolishing a competitor's car with sledge hammers. Who would admit to hating autos? Still, there is a certain undeniable thrill in seeing all that shiny metal...
...book only his admirers comment on him, and they see him much as he sees himself: a man of rocklike integrity and boundless Christian charity. Says one ex-pupil: "His kindness was overwhelming, without ever being in the least sentimental; without even, perhaps, .being personal. He raised the great beaker of his hope to my lips like a communion cup and watched with grave countenance as I drank, and when he took it away, I knew that it was because I had had enough...
...competitive with Suntory. Preparing for that day, President Saji has launched a major advertising campaign, sponsoring such made-in-Hollywood TV shows as 77 Sunset Strip. The campaign sells prestige and national pride. One newspaper ad shows a Japanese man-of-distinction relaxing in his kimono and clutching a beaker of Old Suntory...
...toast their sweethearts with this bland fluid? Does the Government christen its boats with a magnum of milk? Has any true American male, homeward bound, ever tarried in his favorite bar to down a beaker of milk on the rocks ? Have you ever tried to warm the frigid inner man with a cool goblet of milk-homogenized or otherwise...