Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important, the new rules clamp down hard on the numerous additives used in mass ice-cream making. FDA approves the continued use of such lump-preventing stabilizers as gelatin, locust-bean gum, sodium alginate, guar-seed gum and extract of Irish peat moss. But it frowns on any further use of alkaline neutralizers, e.g., baking soda, which some producers use to sweeten up sour milk and cream, make it palatable. Totally banned: certain acid emulsifiers that make ice cream smooth by breaking down the barrier between fat and water. While approving chemicals that occur naturally in food, FDA rejected...
Pocket Veto. In Jackson, Miss., as a bill to clamp down on professional shoplifters was in transit between the House and the Senate, someone made off with...
...skidding off ruts, swaying past boulders and tree stumps, creaking and clattering through the silence of the forest. The night was black and misty. The horses were barely under control. The passenger sat tensed and hunched, eyes screwed up behind steel-rimmed spectacles, mouth clenched tight like a steel clamp beneath a prairie-dry mustache, his thoughts projected far out across a new century big with change. "Too fast?" the driver shouted. Theodore Roosevelt. Vice President of the U.S. and due before dawn to become President of the U.S.. rattled back like a Catling gun: "Go ahead...
...problem of reconnecting the cut ends of large veins and of arteries of all sizes is important in much major surgery and after accidents. It is vital in operations, present and projected, to transplant organs (TIME, Oct. 28). Although clamp's have been tried, they are suitable only in some cases: most vessels still have to be stitched painstakingly with fine thread...
...What if a doctor had to bring his wife along when he performed an operation?' the producer will ask you. 'Can't you see her sitting there murmuring, 'Here's a nice suture, dear, and why don't you try this clamp...