Word: oxygenate
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...familiar "aquo" chemistry, but there are vital similarities. Both systems produce some well-known compounds, among them the amino acids of which proteins are built. Firsoff is certain that when the first living organisms evolved on earth, the atmosphere above the primeval ocean contained ammonia but no free oxygen. When oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and ammonia disappeared, life on earth adapted itself to the new conditions. The amino acids that form earth's proteins, says Firsoff, are relics of the prehistoric conditions under which earth life was born...
...happy-go-lucky Polynesians on the lush tropical islands of Western Samoa give their children imaginative names-Falesiva (Dance Hall), Vaalele (Flying Boat), Okisenep (Oxygen). Last week many proud new parents celebrated the greatest event in Western Samoa's history by christening their infants Tutoatas-Independence...
...female voice sounds out of place in the cramped cockpit of a high-flying B58 bomber: "Oxygen quantity low. Oxygen quantity low. Descend to safe altitude.Monitor oxygen system until descent is accomplished...
...Oxygen. Then in 1949 he began the TV parlay that soon made him television's No. 1 star. He started with Cavalcade of Starpon the old Dumont network, a variety show during the course of which he developed the Gleason characters that were to become as nationally familiar as the face on the $1 bill: Reggie Van Gleason, the patrician sot; Charlie Bratton, the loudmouth; the Poor Soul, who always got into trouble trying to do things for other people; Joe the Bartender, the 3? philosopher-all played by Gleason and all representing some aspect of Gleason himself...
...Alice Kramden, Gleason carried The Honeymooners out of Cavalcade and into the major leagues on CBS's The Jackie Gleason Show, always running nearly every aspect of the production himself, from set designing to bit-part bookings. He worked so hard that he sometimes had to be given oxygen on the set. In 1954 he broke his leg and ankle during a performance...