Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appetite for Everything. All cities with old slum dwellings have a year-round lead poisoning problem. Interior paints used to contain a great deal of the metal; most exterior paints still contain some, but far less than formerly. Crawlers and toddlers in the chew-everything age nibble porch rails and windowsills, chew flakes of old paint or chips of painted plaster and take the lead into their systems, where it is deposited, much like calcium, in the bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that...
...designs on Asian and African beef markets, but they are counting on greater U.S. sales for the big breakthrough. The U.S. imports $263 million worth of beef a year, all of it cooked or canned because of rigid laws prohibiting imports of fresh or fresh-frozen beef that might contain the virus of foot-and-mouth disease. Most imported beef goes into hot dogs and canned stews, or is brought in as canned corned beef. Last year Argentina got only $15.3 million of this business (one of its biggest customers: Campbell Soup Co. for its beef soups...
...mentioned only twice in each show, and then only in the name of the choir. "The aim of the broadcasts was and is intended to achieve a universality," says Apostle Richard L. Evans, who for 33 years has supplied the spoken word. His sermonettes heard with the choir contain no doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, in stead deal with Christian ethics. "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was," he may say. Or, "There is no way of avoiding the moral consequences of a dishonest, unethical or immoral...
...Dieffenbachia-it is also called dumb cane and mother-in-law plant-is such a common house plant that anybody could easily be accidentally poisoned by it. A child who chewed it would become seriously ill, and the effects might be fatal if he swallowed it. For dumbcane stalks contain calcium oxalate, which causes burns similar to those of caustic soda...
...season run on seed stores, buying up morning-glory seeds. Far from representing an interest in gardening, this trend is part of a feverish search for kicks. The word has got around, said the Food and Drug Administration, that the seeds of some varieties of the morning glory contain drugs, chemically related to LSD-25, that will induce other-worldly hallucinations. The two favorite varieties are called, of all things, "Heavenly Blue" and "Pearly Gates...