Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perelman. People used to listen to a Beethoven symphony without trying to identify with the composer. But in the age of do-it-yourself culture, everyman is his own self-discovered, self-expressing genius, though the self being expressed is frequently about as artistic as a defective drain. This is the play Humorist S. J. Perelman apparently began to write, and there are hints of it still ("Every housewife in the country has a novel under her apron"). Followed through, this might have led him to a bitingly comic examination of a serious question: Are democracy and culture ultimately compatible...
...city's mute newspapers, 17,000 men, of a total work force of 20,000, were idle-and each week more than $3,000,000 in wages went down the drain. The papers themselves lost millions in ad and circulation revenues, took what comfort they could from strike-enforced economies. Merely by not publishing, for example, the nine dailies saved $300,000 a day in newsprint alone...
...collected by another with equally high but different standards. After 21 days, blood is too stale to be used whole, though its plasma can still be extracted: in New York gallons of precious blood are discarded after 21 days, but some outdated blood that should have gone down the drain goes into patients instead...
...Economic planning in the region was a joke. Equipment for a steel mill delivered in 1954 was still waiting to be installed. A fruit cannery was finished before it dawned on its builders that there was no local fruit to can. All in all, $660 million went down the drain...
...convinced that cholesterol gets into the blood through the lymph-system interchange. And circulating cholesterol is under indictment as a cause of atherosclerosis. In one of nature's delicate balance mechanisms, a rise in blood pressure may push more fats through artery walls. If the lymphatic system cannot drain away all this fat from the tissue spaces around the arteries, some of it is likely to be left stuck in the arteries-also leading to atherosclerosis. Most victims of heart attacks suffer first from atherosclerosis...