Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tapeworms bask in their intestines; protozoans, flukes and nematodes float around in their fluids. To Rothschild and Clay, a skylark is more than a blithe spirit: it is a flying...
Chemico's Kansas-born chief engineer, Edward S. Roberts, 48, has been working on the process for 18 years; the company spent some $3,000,000 on research perfecting it. It starts by immersing ground crude ore in chemicals and water to float out some foreign matter. The Chemico method, using ammonia or acid, dissolves this concentrate in an "autoclave," similar to a huge pressure cooker. The resulting ore-bearing liquid is piped through a filter into another pressure vessel, where terrific heat and force precipitate the pure metal as a fine powder...
...from a Coast Guard amphibian that landed at the scene, seized one drowning passenger, and fought off sharks for half an hour until they were both pulled to safety. Another hero was the DC-4's captain. He helped some passengers out of the plane and managed to float four life rafts before the plane sank. He hauled a baby and an elderly woman to a raft, and went back to rescue a third floundering passenger...
...like entity of the musical drama, a spirit world exists. But it exists only in the mind of the Medium, who projects her world into the lives of the other characters. Menotti's eerie music sustains this mood, as the voices of the Medium and her daughter, Monica, float ethereally through the tense atmosphere, finally focusing outward in the sharp song of fear...
They never made it. Caught in the turbulent waters off Portland Bill in the south of England, Reliance was sent crashing on the rocks. For a whole night the Davisons clung to a tiny cork float in the freezing seas. Through pure luck, Ann was flung ashore, climbed away from the sea's reach with her last strength. Frank's adventure had ended sooner; his drowned body was found among the rocks...