Word: guttapercha
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...pass an antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents. The following year Laurence Keitt of South Carolina called Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania a "puppy," and about 30 Congressmen, fortified by alcohol, began a free...
...skyscrapers, reached back 96 years for support from The House of the Seven Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built of such permanent...
Last week Washington's Smithsonian Institution proudly announced completion of a postwar project: a new reconstruction of the dodo, a rare item in U.S. museums. Smithsonian curators were sure that their newest version, made in almost equal parts of old bones, guttapercha, historical data and imagination, is the most complete and accurate reconstruction...
...Society that he had streamlined the ancient practice of tooth replacement and that now it did work. First he extracts an abscessed tooth, and removes the jaw abscess. Then he scrapes out all the pulp in the root canal of the tooth, sterilizes it, and fills the shell with guttapercha. After he re-sterilizes it, he pushes the tooth back in its socket with his thumb. A gold frame is clamped on the tooth to hold it in place. After four weeks, said Dr. Messinger, the frame can be removed, for, although the tooth is not rooted to the jawbone...
...have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected by layers of guttapercha, brass tape, jute yarn, galvanized iron...