Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physiologists try to adapt fragile-fleshed man to the hostile conditions of high-altitude, high-speed flight. One of their tools is a low-pressure chamber where men in space-cadet pressure suits try to keep at work, while a near-vacuum sucks at their flesh and tries to boil their blood...
Confronted with the dead body, men have asked themselves at various times: "Shall we lay it in a boat that is set adrift? . . . Shall we expose it to wild animals? Burn it on a pyre? Push it into a pit naked to rot with other bodies? Boil it until the flesh falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder...
...Hartford, Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff came to a high boil when he read in a pamphlet put out by the state government workers' union: "The C.I.O. won't give up on major issues, and will connive, persist and annoy or do anything to get what you [the workers] have a right to have." Rumbled Ribicoff: "Anyone caught conniving or annoying ... in any department of the state government while I am governor will be fired on the spot...
...England, the Anglican Church Times put the problem on to boil again. "It is common knowledge that, in the present state of England, many parents bring their children to the font to be 'done' with scant knowledge of what is really involved . . . Statistics show that roughly two-thirds of the children baptized in infancy are never brought to confirmation...
...powerful insecticides: lindamul, to coat the river and kill the larvae; lindane, to coat the foliage and kill the adult flies. The trick was to hedgehop the dense areas so closely that the insecticide would be blasted to the ground by the downwash from the rotors, would then boil up to saturate the underside of the foliage...