Word: packets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surgically removing the fertilized egg, and implanting it in a scrub cow, which merely acts as a live incubator. The calf that is born is a prize animal with none of its mother's bad blood line. Scientists see a time when a farmer will buy a packet of fertilized ova, and in one year obtain from his scrub cows a herd of the finest cattle. To obtain the eggs in sufficient numbers, the donor cows would be fed hormones to make them super-ovulate. Formidable cost problems must be faced before the experimental process is commercially possible. Another...
...comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which had been snipped from a Spanish sefiorita. But by far the most intriguing was one packet holding a single fair ringlet, with the bemused memo in Byron's faded scrawl: "Whose this was I don't recollect...
...example, the audience is snickering at a dumb chorine, and the next it is staring aghast at her lifeless body in a bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes in the moviegoer's face like a ripe tomato-quite a bit of business in fast motion...
...with her mother and a friend for her first evening dress-to be worn at her first dance. As the three women emerged from a shop on Famagusta's Hermes Street, the dress triumphantly in hand, Margaret screamed. Two black-trousered youths bore down on them, poured a packet of bullets into the backs of Margaret's mother and her companion. Mrs. Cutliffe, mother of five (the youngest 15 months), slumped to the sidewalk dead. Her friend, the wife of a sergeant in the same regiment, was seriously injured...
...Worst damage would be done by a nuclear explosion, fission or fusion. It would contaminate the lunar atmosphere with radioactive gases and sprinkle the moon's surface with radioactive debris. Almost as bad would be the big, backward-pushing retrorockets that would be needed to bring a small packet of instruments to a soft landing on the moon; they would require the release of so much burned fuel that the moon's tenuous atmosphere would never be the same again...