Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rodger W. Griffin, director of Chem 20 labs, blamed the accidents on "negligence on the student level" during the experiment, the preparation of sulfanilamide from benzene. The lab manual contains a special note warning students that chlorosulfonic acid is strongly corrosive and reacts violently when in contact with water...
...possibility of such explosions has been pointed out many times. Dr. Griffin said. "Luckily, both students were wearing safety glasses," he added, "or the accidents might have had very serious consequences...
...exceptionally flexible and mobile carrier striking force is best adapted of all the services to the varied challenges of the new Asian frontier. Sides's big problem is ships. He needs more-more big carriers, more guided-missile cruisers, more modernized destroyers-to furnish Vice Admiral Charles ("Don") Griffin's Seventh Fleet with the firepower it needs. Vice Admiral Charles L. Melson's First Fleet, based in San Diego, is responsible for overhaul and training of units which may be assigned to Don Griffin's Seventh Fleet...
When a novel begins, "Vangel Griffin was a mass-produced member of the middle middleclass. The first 28 years of his life were stamped, cut out and patterned like a piece of processed cheese," three people deserve instant commiseration. The first is the author, who is obviously about to grate a very stale piece of thematic cheese. The second is the reader, who is only too familiar with the fictional conformists in flim-flannel suiting. The third is the hero himself, for whom the author has such clear contempt that all he can look forward to is two or three...
...poor Vangel Griffin goes forth to have his values laundered. He leaves his wife (a bitch, in his words), his job in a law firm (a bore), and his country (a Babbitt hutch), and goes to Spain. Vangel has some sense of purpose: he intends to commit suicide in exactly one year. A woman takes his mind off his goal...