Word: peel
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Some new entrants in the field have novel ideas for handling riots. Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America, an oilfield-service firm, has developed a slippery powder called Instant Banana Peel, which is guaranteed to turn any street rumble into a sit-in. Baltimore-based AAI Corp.. a defense contractor, has come up with a tear-gas grenade with two crowd-control virtues: it has no shrapnel hazard, and it expels its chemicals in seconds-before it can be picked up and pitched back at the police. A company official says that its grenade sales doubled...
Scientists found that they could then peel off the wool with no more effort than it takes to remove adhesive tape from skin...
...peeling process is painless to the sheep, avoids the occasional scratches or nicks left by shears, and assures an even cut of wool. Although researchers will continue to test for possible damaging side effects, the process seems to have done no harm so far to the wool or meat quality of properly dosed sheep. The new technique provides an additional fringe benefit for the sheep. If the wool is allowed to continue growing for as long as three weeks after the drug is administered, the constricted segment of the fibers is pushed about an eighth of an inch beyond...
Canada's Gordon Lightfoot, 29, is one up-to-date folk singer who maintains the old tradition. He comes onstage in a battered buckskin jacket, as if he didn't plan to stay long enough to peel down to shirtsleeves. His mellow bari tone has a countrified accent that, no matter where he is, seems to come from somewhere else. And most of his 130 songs are plaints of a latter-day drifter. "Movin' is my stock in trade," he sings in For Lovin' Me. In Early Morning Rain, broke and marooned in an airport...
Cold calm in the face of verbal provocation is the policeman's duty-even as it is the duty of a nurse in a hospital, or an attendant in an asylum. Rule No. 1 was laid down nearly 140 years ago, not long after Sir Robert Peel established the London Metropolitan Police, the first professional force in the English-speaking world. "No [officer] is justified in depriving anyone of his liberty for words only, and language, however violent . . . is not to be noticed. [A policeman] who allows himself to be irritated by any language whatsoever shows that...