Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic presidential hopefuls stepped up their courtship of the U.S. voters last week, their most serious rival was the man who wasn't there. Muttered Candidate Hubert Humphrey: "It's frustrating as hell to keep hearing, 'We're with you, Hubert, as long as Adlai isn't in.' Always provisional, always conditional." Said California's Pat Brown to a friend: "It's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen in politics. A man is beaten twice, says repeatedly he doesn't want to run, and he still has enough...
...bureaucratic business that young couples must go through at the local bureau of ZAGS, where births, deaths and marriages alike are registered. The couple can turn up in ordinary work clothes, get through the whole ceremony during an everyday lunch hour. "Will you keep your own name or take your husband's?" an official asks the bride, reminding her that if she takes her husband's, she must get a new internal passport within ten days. After that, the couple get a certificate saying that Citizen A and Citizeness B have "contracted marriage," and the ceremony is over...
...which the insects live. But when he ground up the larvae and analyzed the juice, he was surprised to find a considerable glycerol content. Since the active summer larvae do not contain glycerol, he guessed that the larvae possessed a mechanism that reacted to cold by producing glycerol to keep their tissues from freezing in the Minnesota winters...
...amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family. The father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep the family alive and intact while he grabbed spare moments to paint-first copying calendars, then endlessly sketching his sister Yoshiko. When Mabe married eight years ago, his father-in-law forced him to sign a contract to paint no more ("a foolish extravagance...
From the outstandingly competitive men and their opposites, the researchers picked a dozen of each, persuaded them to keep samples of their urine all day on the job, and a nighttime specimen for comparison. Analysis showed what happened to the excretion (and therefore, presumably, to the body's output) of various kinds of hormones. Adrenocortical hormones such as hydrocortisone were similar in the two groups, and varied little between day and night. But on the job, the competitive men's adrenaline jumped 86% above night readings, as against 36% for the comparison group. With noradrenaline, said Dr. Friedman...