Word: ingested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women--commit suicide. A large percentage of women who attempt suicide are between 18 and 30, but most of them do not succeed. A large proportion of men who attempt suicide are in their early 50's and late 60's, and they do succeed. "Women take pills and ingest things. Men use guns and more violent means," Scarf says. "I'm interested in the active versus the passive aspects." She wrote articles on all these aspects of suicide and they eventually led her to articles on depression. "I started on easy things for Cosmopolitan magazine. I was intrigued...
...into an entirely different culture and a whole new set of environmental details. This time a political regime, which is mercifully left sketchy, has decreed that all forms of life down to the merest microbe are equal. Any aggression, even an argument, is a criminal act. People can only ingest something called E-diet, so insubstantial that men no longer sweat, urinate or defecate. Even so, they kill certain microscopic organisms simply by breathing. The command for general suicide goes out so that "the heinous crimes of murder and pollution committed by our race may in some small way find...
...Children are encouraged to visit their father's place of business. There they interrupt proceedings with a ritual cry: "Only one cavity!" Children may also be seen in the early morning, when they ingest the seven essential vitamins every child needs for perfect health. Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief...
...National Air Pollution Control Administration and the Environmental Control Administration. An intense activist, Johnson, 48, spends much of his time reminding Americans that "the human environment consists not only of land, air and water that give us life but also includes the food we eat, the drugs we ingest, and all the thousands of products which we consume or use in this complicated world." Johnson and his staff of 231 can use lawsuits to gain compliance with new federal antipollution laws. But he prefers to use his powers of persuasion...
Drinking a Tubful. Opponents point out that fluorides can be poisonous, and indeed are used in some pesticides. True, but the determining factor is the concentration. A 150-lb. man will get sick if he ingests .25 gm. of fluoride in one day, very sick on 1 gm., and will die with 4 to 8 gm. To ingest even that first .25 gm., he would have to drink more than half a bathtubful of water (42 gal.) containing 1 p.p.m., or, for 1 gm., more than three bathtubfuls (or 276 gal.). Long before he could become ill from the fluoride...