Word: compound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another as an alternative to the dreaded drill. Dr. Finn Brudevold of Harvard's famed Forsyth Dental Center is concerned that the tin in the stannous fluoride solution commonly used for painting may interfere with the absorption of fluorine, and he is casting around for a better compound. Meanwhile, he says, it helps to cover the teeth, right after painting, with a protective coat of silicone grease. A colleague, Dr. Basil Richardson, believes that the best coating is polyoxyethylene soya amine-a sort of reverse detergent to keep the saliva from washing the fluoride away...
...lawyer's brief that accuses Detroit of just about everything except starting the Vietnamese war. The manufacturers deserve some knocks for arrogance and a laissez-faire attitude toward safety, but Nader and other recent anti-auto authors weaken their case by overstating it. The traffic tragedy is a compound of many factors: bad roads, loose licensing, lax police, lenient judges, drinking and-not least-auto construction. Says National Safety Council President Howard Pyle: "There is no single offender. They are all interlocked...
...LANGDON GILKEY, 47, Baptist, professor of theology. A teacher in China, he spent World War II in a Japanese prison camp, told of the experience in Shantung Compound. The greatness of Chicago, says Gilkey, "is that it views Christianity not as separate from culture, but as its spiritual essence." -MARTIN MARTY, 37, Lutheran, associate professor of church history. Among the top historians of the Christian church in America, Marty served for eight years as a parish minister, is an associate editor of the Christian Century. He went to Chicago Divinity because it "is short on ideology and because pragmatism...
...nature of war across a wildly rugged, often inaccessible countryside, no shield can ever be impregnable everywhere, as the tragic fate of a Vietnamese compound called A Shau demonstrated last week...
...enemy was digging in near the camp's wire. Then a white phosphorus mortar shell exploded inside A Shau, and the valley night erupted in recoilless cannon and machine-gun fire, the flash of shells and burning buildings. All night long the enemy poured fire into the compound. Daylight brought dive bombers to the aid of the besieged defenders, though the clouds hung so low that enemy antiaircraft guns were often firing down on allied planes from the slopes of the 1,500-ft.-high mountains above...