Word: foamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implications of that ugly term to brainwash.* In any case, it is unlikely that his opponents in either party will allow him to forget his gaffe-not to mention the cartoonists, who henceforth will surely not miss a chance to picture the Governor's cranium wreathed in detergent foam. And all can do it with impunity, since he did it to himself...
Last week Dr. Eagleson told the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine about the improvisation and later improvements. The surfboard is made from two pieces of plywood hinged together and covered with foam rubber. The bedsore patient lies on it face down, with his legs at an angle of about 20° from the vertical, and the upper part of his body only 25° to 35° from the horizontal. In this position, patients on surfboards can read and eat more comfortably. Their old bedsores heal without surgery, and new sores do not develop. Boudreaux has perfected his board...
...some 2,000 law-enforcement agencies across the country and in time may well replace the head-cracking, bone-breaking billy club. Dubbed the "gentle persuader" by some policemen, the Mace fits inconspicuously in a belt holster-and looks about as persuasive as a can of shaving foam...
...precise size and degree of detail which will exactly convey what he seeks: in "Detail of Meadow Grass, Late Evening" he achieves a delicate, tapestry-like translation of nature; later in "Raindrops on Grass" his enlargement is merely crude, but finally, in the complete abstraction of "Water and Foam," the play of light on form is translated from reality into a perfect work of artifice...
Developed by Caldwell C. Johnson, assistant chief of the Advanced Spacecraft Technology Division at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the lifeboat is a rigid 400-lb. fiber glass shell lined with polyurethane foam and shaped like an old French bathtub-narrower at one end than at the other. It is 6 ft. long, 4| ft. wide, 21 ft. deep. Sheathed in a Johnson-designed nylon heat shield for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, the craft is equipped with a swivel-mounted retrorocket, attitude-control jets, a transponder for ground control, a built-in oxygen supply...