Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thirty years ago when I became pregnant with my first child, I began to bleed. The doctors tried everything, but nothing helped. My grandmother, who was born in Rumania, suggested I try one-half glass of starch dissolved in water three times a day. My bleeding stopped, and I had a full-term, normal...
...tale of horror that issued from the trial of Adolph Eichmann. But in London last week, audiences reeling out of the St. Martin's Theater were convinced that they had experienced something like a surrealistically twisted version of the Eichmann affair. The play is The Man in the Glass Booth. The booth is a criminal's bulletproof dock, but the drama is anything but shatterproof...
...days in power, the junta that took over Greece in a lightning coup has restored order to a country that was torn by political strife. It has done so at the expense of much of Greece's exuberant, explosive spirit. The image of a surtaki-dancing, owzo-glass-smashing people is being replaced by that of a docile folk whose chief concern seems to be getting to church on time and keeping the young girls out of miniskirts. Not since Calvin put the fear of God into Geneva has any regime so devoted itself to reforming the moral character...
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...
...long since corrected its voltage regulator tubes by extending their internal shielding and enveloping them in leaded glass. According to a G.E. study, X rays emitted by the faulty tubes were sufficiently absorbed by other components and the cabinet to reduce the outside radiation to harmless levels. But G.E. and the Public Health Service will breathe easier when the last of the 9,000 missing sets has been located and its menacing tubes replaced...