Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bible, watched TV through a window in the 7-ft. diameter cone, slept only six hours a night but made up for it by lying on his back some twelve hours a day, doing nothing at all. Sheets of potassium superoxide absorbed his breath, removed the potentially poisonous carbon dioxide and released the fresh oxygen that he lived on all week. He came through so well that the space doctors are now at last ready to try the test in the weightless condition of actual space, first with animals, then with...
Some scientists suspect that the ever-increasing amount of fossil fuel that is burned may be increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. They fear that the added CO-will have a "greenhouse effect," trapping solar heat at the earth's surface and raising its temperature. The result may be unpleasant changes of climate, including deserts in many places that are now fertile, and a disastrous rise of sea level because of melting icecaps. A cure might be a world agreement to use nuclear reactors wherever possible. They excrete...
...Oxygen lungs have one great advantage: they recycle the diver's carbon dioxide through a purifier, let no bubbles escape to the surface. For this reason they are used by military frogmen, who would be betrayed by the telltale stream of bubbles from a compressed-air lung, which discharges spent breath into the water...
...underdog, fighting alone against the impersonal power of the state, his sheer persistence in teaching himself law, drafting appeals, writs and briefs in a double-locked Death Row cell, smuggling out one writ on sheets of toilet paper, concealing the manuscript of a book by typing it lightly on carbon paper after prison authorities ordered him not to write any more for publication. But the No. 1 argument of the spare-Chessman camp is that he has already suffered enough. Such phrases as "long agony" and "legal torture" and "abominable suspense" abound in European editorials on the Chessman case...
...Paar was another, even more demanding matter. In the past, affable Hugh served as an excellent, soothing contrast to Paar's suppressed frenzy and suavely spread oil on troubled waters. Without Paar, only the oil remained. Filling in for the boss, Hugh got his own Downs-a carbon copy of himself, Announcer Art James-and his delivery grew positively ebullient. Only when word came earlier that Paar would return to the show was Hugh visibly subdued...