Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built common sugars such as sucrose and dextrose with one or more atoms of radioactive carbon-14. As the tagged sugar goes through the system and eventually escapes, its progress can be clocked. Doctors already know that there is more to diabetes than the body's inability to "burn" sugar. With tracers, they expect to find that the trouble lies in the body's failure to do a good job converting what it gets from sugar into fats or protein...
...accident of prior discovery, radium has never been brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well into his thigh bone...
...company's 11,625 employees are kept busy; 47 service trucks cruise the Detroit area night & day to replace lamps and fuses, fix appliances, install lead-in wires for electric stoves, etc. For new homes the crews install up to 40 light bulbs free, thereafter replace any that burn out, requiring only the old bulb or the metal end in exchange...
Speaking under the sponsorship of the Harvard Young Progressives, Patterson charged, "You burn a cross to terrorize Negroes...
...pell-mell spills. Andy, after one half fall and a daredevil jump ending in a ski-tangled pileup, led the U.S. squad but finished a sorry 17th out of 43. Her sense of humor still intact, she said with a grin: "I guess we're the crash and burn team ... I made a great jump-right off the course." This week Andy had only one to go, her favorite : the special slalom...