Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Icebox Will Do. In preserving the blood's white cells (twice as big as the red, 7,000 to a cu. mm.), researchers could report no comparable success. But they had at least some good news: they have concentrated the substance (a protein) that stimulates white cells to devour invading bacteria and thus makes them the body's shock troops against infection. If an injection could whet the white cells' appetite, it would be a powerful reinforcement of the body's natural defenses...
...holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins, platelets can be separated and kept indefinitely at ordinary icebox temperatures...
...frugality, once rebuked an insurance executive for giving a stenographer a $5 raise after 20 years' service with the company. But Mrs. Northen was even more frugal. Until a few years ago, she had no modern appliances in her home; food was kept in an old-fashioned icebox. She had no radio, and her house was heated by a wood stove. She dressed plainly, wore black cotton stockings. She drove a 1928 Studebaker until her father heard that people were laughing at her and gave her a Cadillac...
...read, and we started with six cookbooks. After several weeks of rather strange food I came home one evening to a chicken soufflé as savory as a politician's dream." Harris learned later that the recipe his wife had followed called for a soufflé made from icebox leftovers. Having no leftovers in her kitchen, she had spent the entire day cooking up bits of leftovers to satisfy the recipe...
Frigid Work. The Senate's machinery is less well lubricated. One hot day this summer, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen stopped in to talk to Majority Leader Bill Knowland. Dirksen said he was thirsty, although Knowland had not asked him. Bill Knowland went to his icebox, found the ice trays frozen in from long disuse, began hacking at them with a letter opener. With characteristic single-mindedness, Knowland turned down his aides' suggestion that they get some ice from the Senate restaurant, and ignored Dirksen's pleas to forget it. Fifteen minutes later, Knowland...