Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drugstores suddenly were deluged by unhappy fatties, who bought up dextrose supplies in the earnest hope that they had at last found the unfindable-a way to deflate abdominal tires without leaving themselves hungry. Dextrose, used in a few baby formulas and for intravenous feeding in hospitals, usually gathers dust on druggists' shelves. The Liggett chain (118 stores) may sell 400 Ibs. a month; after the LHJ fable, sales zoomed to 800 Ibs. a day. Other chains across the country reported the same sort of boom. And because the plain formula tastes so flat, there was a corresponding boost...
...Another point: she always felt worse in the mornings; the symptoms were most acute after she had been abed. One of the clinchers: a record player in her bedroom, frequently faltering, had been sent out for overhaul, and the repairman had reported that its mechanism was clogged with whitish dust and particles of paint...
...agents went to work on the room, found other lodes of white dust in folds of draperies, in cosmetics, in crevices and corners of furniture. Quick tests showed a high content of arsenate of lead. The source of the deadly fallout: the painted roses of the ceiling. The experts also found that the heavily leaded paint exuded fumes in Rome's humid weather. The conclusion: for 20 months Ambassador Luce had been breathing arsenated fumes, had been eating food and drinking coffee powdered day after day with the deadly white dust...
...antimatter, it would I vanish in a puff of energy. But if a galaxy made of antimatter were to collide with an ordinary galaxy, their stars might not annihilate each other. In the vast emptiness of space, even within a galaxy, direct collisions between stars are extremely unlikely. But dust and gas between the stars would certainly come in contact. Each particle of normal matter would annihilate a particle of antimatter. The result would be a great increase in brightness. No such glowing collision has been observed, says Professor Frisch, but "since collisions between galaxies are anyhow very rare, this...
Geologists have developed many theories to account for the ebb and flow of glaciers in Europe and North America. Some blame external causes, such as interstellar dust or changes in the earth's atmosphere. In Science, Professors (of geology) Maurice Ewing of Columbia University and William L. Bonn of Brooklyn College propound a theory of ice ages that requires no cause external to the earth and no change in the atmosphere...