Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months of war, oil lamps had been supplanted by the light bulb, the gourd by the bidet, pineapple juice by Coca Cola, lotto by roulette, Rocambole by Pearl White, the messenger boy's donkey by the telegraphist's bicycle...
...megahertz, in the frequency range used by short-wave broadcasters. The signals were sent into the body by electrodes or other devices attached directly to the skin immediately above the tumors. The doses, lasting up to 30 minutes, never exceeded 25 watts-the power drawn by a small light bulb-per square inch. The lightly sedated patients generally felt no pain and did not suffer serious damage to skin or other tissue. Nonetheless, the radiation was strong enough to raise the temperature of the tumors ten to 20 degrees above the surrounding tissue...
DAFFODIL (bulb): severe vomiting and diarrhea, trembling, convulsions and sometimes death...
...most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign newsmen) while cultivating nonofficial sources and picking up dissident tracts at park-bench meetings. The children had to adjust to the strict and dogmatic school system: Second-Grader Kate, for example, was taught that the light bulb and locomotive had been invented by Russians. They also found themselves-and their chewing gum and felt-tipped pens-the objects of envy and curiosity. The most difficult task for the whole family was forming friendships; foreigners never know for sure whether a heart felt overture by a Russian...
...joke, it took three people to change a light bulb (one to hold the bulb while two turn the ladder). That's nothing compared with the eight New Yorkers you show [Nov. 10] that it takes to raise a manhole cover...