Word: paraffined
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...point of $110 a cord for wood-burners. Dry firewood sells for $80 to $90 in rural New England, for $90 in the Middle West, hovers between $150 and $200 near the big East Coast cities, and has climbed to $225 in Manhattan. (Artificial logs made of sawdust and paraffin, and sold at most supermarkets, can be dangerous if used in woodburning stoves, and are no great bargain at about $1.40 for a three-hour log.) Still, even half a cord of firewood stacked in a garage is a comforting source of emergency heat for buz zards and supply interruptions...
...oldtimer, Woiwode, 33, compares the merits of long-forgotten tractor brands (the Hart Parr, Waterloo Boy, Rumley Oil Pull) and stocks a winter larder as it was in the days before home freezers: "The potato bin was full. There were parsnips, kohlrabi, turnips and rutabagas, all dipped in paraffin to preserve them, in other bins, and carrots buried under sand...
...immediately fast-frozen and sliced paper thin. The microscope gave no clear indication of cancer in this test, which was completed while the patient was still on the operating table. So Urban had no reason to cut farther. But the remainder of the tissue was fixed in paraffin for more detailed examination-a process that takes 24 hours or more. Next day, the more clearly stained paraffin sections revealed a group of cancerous cells about the size of two pinheads...
With the cancer apparently confined to so tiny a nodule, Urban needed to remove only the breast tissue itself, leaving intact the underlying muscle and adjacent tissue in the armpit. To be on the safe side, he sent lymph nodes from inside the breast for paraffin fixing and more microscopy, which proved negative as expected. Despite the surgeon's traditional caution, Urban felt free to say, "We honestly believe Mrs. Rockefeller is cancer free now, and will be free...
With Biochemist David Gutnick, Rosenberg isolated a genus of bacteria called arthrobacter, which feast on crude oil, and then developed a particularly fast-multiplying new strain, which they named "RAG-1."* Bred in salt water enriched with phosphorus and nitrogen compounds, the strain gobbles up the paraffin (waxy) content of crude oil, leaving only small droplets of dewaxed oil that break down quickly in nature and become harmless carbon dioxide and water...