Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polio vaccines until now have been made from killed or attenuated viruses grown in cultures of cells taken from monkey kidneys. The process and the vaccines are highly effective, but manufacturers-and some physicians-fear that other viruses lurking in the monkey kidneys may slip into the vaccine with unpredictable effects on the human recipient. One stray monkey virus has turned up in some vaccine samples. Many virologists believe that it would be better to make the vaccine from viruses grown in human cells, specifically in a strain developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick and Dr. Paul S. Moorhead. Originally derived...
...Where frescoes are found in a crumbled state, Marinates has them picked up piece by piece and reassembled on the spot by gentle-fingered experts in a workshed. The few visitors admitted to "surgery" find tables strewn with seeming jigsaw puzzles of painted plaster bits. One represents a blue monkey springing up through space with fingertip lightness (see second color page). The perfection of his leap sets this image among the greatest paintings of animals ever created...
...policy behind the trip that I object to. In fact, as you know, Tom, it was I who as early as 1967 said that any American policy in Asia would have to take Red China into account. So in that sense, I am not trying to put the monkey on the President's back...
...Monkey Business, the Marx Brother's classic. Harkness Commons...
...jobs followed as a logger, well rigger, powder monkey and ranch hand. In between, he got deeper into crime. He was convicted in Nebraska on a robbery charge, and while serving that sentence, was brought to trial for a Minnesota gas-station holdup in which he was accused of shooting the attendant. "Coming in for 40 years." he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce recently, "I felt, well, if I was going to do anything with my life, I'd have to do it here. I always enjoyed reading, so I turned to writing...