Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also on the way are new methods to prevent tooth decay. Rochester Dentists Eriberto Cueto and Michael Buonocore recently cut decay by 86% among 269 young patients by applying a thin plastic coating twice yearly to tooth surfaces. In upstate New York, an NIDR researcher cut decay by 80% among 500 children who wore mouthpieces treated with sodium fluoride for six min utes of each school day for two years. By contrast, mass fluoridation of water reduces decay by about 65%. Using a self-administered prophylactic paste, Annapolis midshipmen were able to cut their incidence of cavities...
...fundamental problems of modern astronomy are connected with the origin and evolution of stars and galaxies," says Olin Eggen, director of Australia's Mount Stromlo Observatory. "We have come to some general ideas on how stars are formed, evolve and decay, and on the dynamics of our galaxy. But the subject still abounds in unsolved problems...
...Bridge, the shores of Lake Michigan were taken over last month by dead alewives. The fish,*members of the herring family, washed ashore on every incoming wave, piling up on the beaches faster than bulldozers and tractors could clear them away. They filled the air with the odor of decay and drew swarms of mosquitoes and flies...
...system chooses not to ignore the Sawneys. Next door live the Jacksons, the clean little family who have just arrived in the lower middle class and who are always irritating the Sawneys. The bobbies are always poking around, and the building inspector keeps checking up on the march of decay that is sweeping over the Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State have crushed...
RICHARD STRAUSS: THE LIFE OF A NONHERO, by George R. Marek. The great romantic composer is viewed amidst a vivid evocation of cultural life in Germany-whose decay and upheaval after World War I, argues the author, was the cause of Strauss's disappointing later output...