Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Editorial reaction was less than sympathetic to Kennedy. New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger concluded that "both Peking and Hanoi must have gained fresh encouragement by the joining of our Know-Nothings with our Know-It-Alls." Kennedy, he observed cuttingly, would have been "more honest to suggest abandoning Viet Nam without even bothering to negotiate...
Adams' battery consisted of a lightweight container, one electrode made of magnesium and another of cuprous chloride. It could be stored indefinitely and activated by simply pouring in fresh or salt water. While cooking up some cuprous chloride on his wife's stove, Adams accidentally dropped cigarette ashes into the brew-and vastly improved it. Moreover, when his battery was connected to a load, a chemical reaction took place that produced heat. As a result, the battery worked surprisingly well at temperatures...
...Fresh Water Only...
Conservationists and health officials urged the construction of a dam to keep the sea water out and to transform the Charles into an entirely fresh water river. In 1908, the Charles River Dam was built near the present site of the Museum of Science, and the eight-and-a-half mile long, 300 million gallon capacity Charles River Basin was created. The fresh water basin could have absorbed and treated "naturally" the storm water overflow sewage...
Ricard sustained himself and his employees during the war by introducing rice culture to France. He drained 2,100 acres of the Camargue. a brackish swamp west of Marseille, pumped in fresh water, raised crops that led to an industry that has made France self-sufficient in rice. At war's end Ricard returned to pastis making. As Frenchmen flocked to the Riviera for sun and fun, they picked up the pastis habit, demanded what Ricard calls his "sunshine in a bottle" when they got home. With rising orders from all of France, Ricard's production went from...