Word: lime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caste Hindus second. Last Sunday, a 35-year-old mason named Sriramulu showed a foul-looking ulcer on his ankle, explained: "First there was an abscess. When it became very painful, I cut it with a penknife. This did not cure it. The village barber told me to apply lime and tobacco. It got worse and I tried a local remedy, covering up the sore with mud. That did not do any good, either." The student put on a sulfa dressing, told Sriramulu he was lucky not to have developed tetanus...
...when I started traveling with my father, who was a Peruvian diplomat and author). First thing that impressed me here was that my countrymen were an emotional lot. Next I noticed that they were given to using high-sounding polysyllables and superlatives. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, if a limeño "were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." In fact, Latins in general treat four-syllable words with the careless ease North Americans reserve for four-letter words. People in public life, even second-raters, are often described in the newspapers as ilustre, gentil, eminente...
...Bain handed MacVicar his favorite specimen, a chunk of pre-Cambrian limestone from the great Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, world's largest supply of uranium. After slowly heating the stone to 1,800° C. and letting it cool slowly, MacVicar painstakingly brushed away the powdered lime and uncovered the fragile, microscopic remains of a billion-year-old sponge. Dr. Bain described it as "among the oldest [fossils] yet discovered...
...Canary & Lime. Settlemayer knew what he wanted to do. He had been interested in libraries since he got a job, at 13, as a part-time page boy in Cincinnati. "My primary job," Settlemayer says, "was to shelve books. But my secondary job was to go next door and get the firemen to put out kids who made any noise." Instead of putting people out, Librarian Settlemayer figured that he should be bringing them in -and the more the merrier...
...Atlanta, one of his first moves was to have the old building cleaned of half a century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...