Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days old. They minced each sample finely and treated it with enzymes that made its cells separate without killing them. Straining the soupy stuff through a fine nylon filter, they removed all remaining cell clumps. Then they concentrated the isolated, mixed-up cells to a soft mush and deposited specks of it on the saclike "chorio-allantoic" membrane enclosing eight-day-old chick embryos...
After the bits of mush had been incubated for nine days, their jumbled cells arranged themselves in pretty good order. Getting nourishment from the blood supply of the membrane, they started to grow again. Kidney cells grew into a tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...
...properly begun to hope, Wink begins to grope-with Virginia's wrist watch-at the local beach club. The assembled giddy-biddies pick the pair's backbones in whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want to. Indeed. Wink...
...Mush Note. In Springfield, 111., after handing the police chief a bunch of forget-me-nots and noting that he tends to get sentimental when he has had too much to drink, Alfonso Senor admitted that it was his fourth sentimental occasion with in a week, got six months at the Vandalia Penal Farm...
...runaway slave named Jim (tolerably well played by Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore). But while the story goes down the river, the picture heads up the creek. The director and scriptwriter seemed determined to reduce Mark Twain's Huckleberry as rapidly as possible to the sort of fruity mush the customers are accustomed to. Most of the major episodes of Huck's hegira are drastically cut or dropped outright. And to chunk up the hole that is left, there is enough conventional "dingnation and sentimenterin' "-not to mention some moony tunes by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton...