Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explain why the baggage compartments were catching fire, the bureau men borrowed a DC-6, filled its No. 3 fuel tank with water dyed bright red and coated its belly with a material that will absorb dye. Taking it into the air, they pumped more water into the No. 3 tank, forcing it to overflow through a vent. When they landed, they found that the wind had whipped the overflowing water to the belly and dyed it red. Included in the reddened area was the air intake of the cabin heating system. Conclusion: gasoline sucked into the heater had started...
...conferred with his wife, his mother, Rose Kennedy, and other members of the family. From his father's three doctors he learned more details about the fact that Joseph Kennedy had suffered an intracranial thrombosis, a blood clot in an artery in the brain. A quickly performed arteriogram-dye injected into the main artery of the neck and photographed by X ray as it flows through the vessels of the brain-had revealed the thrombosis to be in the left cerebral hemisphere, and inoperable. There was some paralysis in Kennedy's right side, and he was unable...
Today Americans are denied the whoop-dedoo promotion of Barry's Tricopherous, or Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, or Wine of Cardui, or Madame Dean's French Female Pills, or Dr. Dye's Voltaic Belt, or even Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. But the television viewer, morosely staring at an armpit, or watching little hammers beat a brain, or listening to the simulated gurgling of a stomach, knows that the spirit of the medicine man is still around...
Night after night, everybody is there-cops, professors, bums, Wall Street customers' men, out-of-work actors with Biblical haircuts, dye-blonde actresses with bright blue eyelids; sailors in summer whites, girls in their summer dresses, girls in slacks, pony-tailed skinks from Greenwich Village, and novice beards with the Penguin Classics in the hip hip pockets of their dungarees-fabricating laughter in all the archaic places. The crowd begins on folding chairs around a large and multi-proned stage, then spreads out onto bleachers and grass-covered slopes. About 3,500 turn up in Manhattan's Central...
...good housekeeping is scarcely older than her column. "I didn't know you had to clean a John until six months after I got married," says she. Once, before guests arrived for a garden party, she dressed up brown spots on 'her lawn with green vegetable dye. But her homely hints are usually followed to the letter: when she recommended putting a cup of water inside a turkey to keep it juicy while roasting, some readers obediently stuffed their birds with both cup and water...