Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their theory, Rouse and Bisque used children's Modeling Dough to mold a mantle around a solid core. The core was attached to a spindle that the scientists used to spin their model earth, accelerating it to simulate the effects of tugging magnetic fields. When the modeling compound dried and formed a thin crust, its larger cracks clearly defined major stress planes that were tangent to the core...
...digestive systems were "intact," but there was evidence of "disturbances in the central nervous system." In other words, it wasn't just something they ate. Then Utah State University veterinarian Delbert A. Osguthorpe reported that more extensive testing had narrowed the cause of death to an organic phosphate compound of a kind found both in insecticides and nerve gas. "Since the Army had admitted conducting the nerve-gas tests the day before the sheep began dying, that would seem to clear the matter up," said Osguthorpe...
President Nguyen Van Thieu rode through the hastily cleared streets of Saigon last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address...
...social life a bore, likes to putter in his garden, walk with his family in his spare time. He has become a fan of hamburgers, motels and dry martinis. At home, he drinks California wine ("to help with your balance of payments"); at IMF's 13-story office compound two blocks from the White House, he imbibes French vintages ("be cause the cost won't show on your payments accounts...
...worst tragedy involving the missions took place early in the offensive when six American Protestants with the Christian and Missionary Alliance were killed at a compound near Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, where the CMA ran a school and a leprosarium. According to survivors' accounts, the attack began before dawn when North Vietnamese sappers blew up a home in the center of the compound. The two occupants, Leon Griswold, 66, a retired insurance salesman from White Plains, N.Y., who had turned missionary, and his daughter Carolyn, 41, a youth worker, were fatally injured...