Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi...
Timed-release decongestant medicines contain hundreds of small but visible pellets of gelatin-or wax-coated drugs in a single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...
Catalyst for More. Seven companies, mostly organized by steel firms, are now building $1 billion worth of taconite-processing plants that will employ 9,000 men and ship 33 million tons of pellet ore annually. By 1990 the capacities of these plants will double. Two new Minnesota towns, Silver Bay and Hoyt Lakes, have recently been created. The taconite boom is also reviving older towns: in Chisholm (pop. 7,100), unemployment has fallen from 33% three years ago to only 6% today. Mining company payrolls and purchases will soon reach $194 million a year, and Minnesota expects the taconite industry...
...March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...
Gavin Gilmore currently leads the squad's offense with a .394 batting average. Both Tom Bilodeau and Terry Bartolet are hitting the pellet at a .367 clip while Dick Diehl and Tom Stephenson are tied at .332. Stephenson leads the team in RBIs with 7 and in home runs with...