Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chemical compound of lithium's light isotope, Li and hydrogen's middle isotope...
ACTH, expensively extracted from the pituitary glands of cattle, also helps many a disease, such as arthritis, but the magic compound, unfortunately, is anything but simple. It is a polypeptide, a large molecule (molecular weight 4,500) made up of many amino-acid units arranged in a long chain. Chemists have puzzled over its structure for years, but have learned only bits and scraps about it. Polypeptides (related to proteins) are baffling things to deal with...
...furniture from a supply dump. New Guinea headquarters, says the history, decreed that "in view of the large number of male troops in the area, some of whom allegedly had not seen a nurse or other white woman in 18 months, WACs would be locked within their barbed-wire compound at all times except when escorted by armed guards." The New Guinea WACs, as everywhere, did their job-in this case mostly mail censorship. Said their male supervisor: "[They] possess an uncanny knack for picking up hidden security breaches...
...exquisite modern adaptation of Cinderella. This version is modern, to say the least, with such lines as, "Hit the road, toad," and "Wise-guy, eh?" It seems to do Cinderella no harm, however, for children in the audience aren't bothered by the dialogue, which is a clever compound of parental cliches...
...puffed meekly at his pipe; he sidled in quietly; he seldom spoke unless spoken to. But on a second look, a rare quality seemed to glow in that sad and wizened face, with its disordered halo of white hair and its soulful brown eyes. The quality was genius, a compound of soaring intellect and wide-ranging imagination that had carried Albert Einstein past the confines of man's old scientific certitudes and deeper into the material mysteries of the universe than any man before...