Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECAY OF THE ANGEL by YUKIO MISHIMA Translated by EDWARD G. SEIDENSTICKER 236 pages. Knopf...
Even if such a ban were issued, we would have to contend with at least another century of asbestos-induced diseases, as products now on the market gradually decay and release fibers into the surrounding environment...
...that make asbestos a prime ingredient in all forms of industrial fireproofing and insulation are those that make it a deadly irritant once inhaled. A crystalline mineral extracted from a host rock, asbestos is incombustible, and is impervious to bacterial, organic or almost any other type of corrosion or decay. Endowed with the tensile strength of piano wire, the fiber is extremely flexible, spinnable and absorbant. It is so fine--about 2000 times finer than human hair--that once imbedded in the lung tissue, a fiber of asbestos will remain there indefinitely, unless it happened to have settled high enough...
...Brattle was firmly enough established by 1960 that it was time for Harvey the businessman to expand his holdings in Cambridge. The old University Theater was beginning to decay; Harvey bought it and had it slightly remodelled--the new "two-speed" chairs were installed, reducing the capacity from 1889 to 1689, the premises were cleaned, and prices were raised substantially. Manager Clarence "Bud" Kramer '56 explained the new philosophy (same as the old): "It will be your Hollywood films with some good foreign films spotted...
...Solitude. That book was self-contained: Garcia chronicled Macondo from its beginning to its destruction by an apocalyptic storm. Now he wants to see what would have happened if the apocalypse had proved false, if the people of Macondo had been forced to live through another century of heat, decay, and silence...