Word: molds
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...studied the plate, Fleming noticed that the colonies of staphylococci around the edge of the gloppy mold had been destroyed. This observation set the scientist off on a series of experiments in which he demonstrated that the mysterious mold was able to kill off an entire range of disease-producing bacteria. Because this particular fungus was a member of the Penicillium group, he named it penicillin after its presumed active ingredient...
...crestfallen when the electorate believed them. They who embodied Big Government had successfully argued themselves into a state of semi-irrelevance, with Clinton coming out on top because he already was on top, because his opponent's campaign was in a tizzy, but mainly because he had become that mold of moderation toward which the people had been edging for 25 years. "Tonight," he said in his victory speech, "we proclaim that the vital American center is alive and well...
...keep the U.S. out of that snake pit by refusing to engage Saddam militarily on Kurdish turf. Not only were the logistics of fighting there tough--no use of ground troops, high risk to pilots--the political implications with Turkey and Iran were even tougher. Having failed to mold the Kurds into an effective scourge against Saddam, the U.S. must now live with Iraq's newfound power in the north...
Sleaze is only sometimes sexual--or financial; in politics, there is a more important corruption, which spreads like a mold. Among other things, this fungus causes the agile politician to dance around repudiating things that he held sacred day before yesterday...
...maze of summer media, but there was something less driven about her latest release, something that sounded less driven and more, well, produced. Calculated. Chapman's latest release sounds like her first one, put through a blender to average the overall "Chapman sound," and then poured into a CD mold. The problem is, generic Tracy isn't Tracy at all. One of the things that made her earlier albums so compelling was their inconsistencies, the exquisitely different points they were able to access, like so many different facets on a diamond pressurized into shape by the urgency of honest anger...