Word: hypo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which it got there remained hidden in the biochemical jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance was missing from their blood: an enzyme forbiddingly named hypo-xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltrans-ferase, or PRT in the trade...
...only am I a child genius, but I can blow a four-cuspid hypo-cycloid smoke ring...
...Hepburn realizes that she has allowed herself to become a helpless victim of The Mob-trapped in her apartment, the phone line cut, the neighbors gone, friendless, sightless and alone. Whereupon the most malevolent criminal advances on her, knife in hand. She throws some of her husband's hypo in his face, temporarily blinding him. Then, to provide the great equalizer, she extinguishes every light in the house. Hunter and prey slowly circle each other, waiting in the dark. Suddenly he remembers the one overlooked illumination and opens the refrigerator door...
...Braves have a new home, a new first baseman, and a new lease on life. Just being in Atlanta is bound to be a hypo for Bobby Bragan's team, and with Lee Thomas coming from Boston to take over first base, several problems are solved. Joe Torre can now concentrate on catching, and Gene Oliver can be platooned much more effectively...
...positive. When the specially coated film is exposed to light, certain parts of its emulsion are broken down in a process so mysterious that scientists themselves are a bit baffled. The film can then be developed much more simply and rapidly than ordinary film through immersion in a hypo solution, which dissolves some of the exposed parts to produce a positive; on the other hand, nothing is dissolved when ordinary film is developed, and its exposed parts become black to form a negative...