Word: injection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a monster, says Dr. Wolff, is to subject an embryo to violent changes of temperature or to inject it with drugs or chemicals. But this system gives the experimenter no control over the monstrosities that it produces. Much better, he thinks, are delicate operations on the embryo, either with X rays or microsurgical instruments...
...Communist days. Though there were student spies ("I could always tell," says one facultyman. "They took notes at the wrong times"), teachers and students found subtle ways of communicating. Says a historian: "If I had to refer to the 'Soviet liberation of Poland,' for example, I would inject a tiny pause or hesitation in my voice before and after the expression. No change of tone-just these little pauses. That meant irony, and every one of my students knew...
MOUSE-NOTS (strychnine): induce vomiting or give up to eight heaping teaspoonfuls of universal antidote in water, inject barbiturates to stop convulsions...
...fashion; Italian designers were asserting presumptuous claims. Rich Marcel Boussac, France's biggest owner of textile mills, became concerned. He reasoned that the prestige of Paris' couturiers directly affected the sale of textiles produced by his mills. He set out to find a. new designer who could inject fresh vitality into Paris' sluggish salons. Friends sent him Dior...
...prison); others, fresh from work gangs, wore blue dungarees. As a man's name was called he walked upstairs to a room equipped as an emergency surgery, sat down and proffered a bare forearm. Dr. Chester M. Southam of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute then proceeded to inject live cancer cells...