Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a patient has any one of a number of infections, his physician may write on a prescription blank: "Tetracycline, 250 mg. #16. Sig. 1 caps, q.i.d." That dosage of 250 milligrams is standard for any adolescent or adult, whether a 100-lb. girl or a 300-lb. man. Equally standard is the one capsule four times a day for about four days...
...traces of its earliest years; the oldest known terrestrial rocks date back about 3.3 billion years. "What has happened during the missing 1.2 billion years?" wonders Astronomer Robert Jastrow, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. "We do not know; they are a blank page in the history of our planet. If the age of the rocks on the surface of the moon turns out to be 4.5 billion years, we may learn the answer." One of the most important parts of the answer concerns biogenesis, the beginning of life, which occurred on earth more...
...lines (who among mod poets could resist the 15th?). His surrealism-Lowell's word for it, and not really the right one-is technically encouraged by a decision to abandon rhyme and relax the meter of his sonnets-roughly the equivalent of playing checkers with chessmen on a blank board. This stylistic invitation to artistic indulgence occasionally helps betray Lowell into incoherence. Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry is written. When Lowell's struggle is against his own chaos...
...Buck (Jon Voight) is a strutting phallus, good, he admits, for nothin' but lovin'. His muscles are like his mind, heavy and ornamental. His eyes are like attic windows, blank and blue, opening onto a pile of dusty junk. The son and grandson of prostitutes, Joe flees the loveless desolation of his Tex as home and heads for Manhattan...
...theory, the four-year-old Medicaid program gives states what amounts to a blank check from the U.S. Treasury. In practice, the program-designed to finance medical care for the needy-has proved to be a tremendous drain on state treasuries as well. Even though federal handouts cover at least 50% of the costs, several leading Medicaid states -including New York, California and Michigan-have been forced to slash aid to their "medically indigent" because the runaway rise in hospital, drug and doctors' bills threatened to engulf their budgets in red ink. Now Medicaid's first state dropout...