Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is little that these square, black calculators cannot do. They cannot digest any name with more than 18 letters. The unfortunate who has such a name gets a new and shorter title along with his number. These machines cannot think either, despite the ubiquitous little signs, labeled THINK in big black letters, surrounding them. But they come too close for comfort...
Whole Cloth. Pabst Brewing Co. put on the market a dry-cleaning powder which literally eats stains from clothing. An enzyme, the powder will digest stains made by eggs, milk, chocolate, coffee, beer. One drawback: if used on a synthetic fabric with a protein base, the powder will eat up the cloth. Price of "Exzyme": $4.50 a pound...
...summer. Next day, face ashen, hands shaking, Moran let a clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance: "With a stomach which can no longer digest the hypocrisies of the so-called politicians, I hereby tender my resignation...
...past 162 years, France has been trying to digest the French Revolution which other nations have assimilated with less difficulty. If the decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep as most 19th Century historians said it was, France's problem would not have arisen. The truth was that the Revolution was made against one of the most successful social structures the world ever saw, still near the height of its vigor at the moment it was attacked. Only the most powerful revolutionary drive could have breached that structure, only the massive vigor of the pre-Revolutionary French...
...movie has a well-groomed look and shows admirable taste in the melodramas it chooses to imitate, though it gluttonously borrows more plot than it can digest...