Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to float the whole body-just the butt." Spence observed that the body protects itself from friction by fatty tissues that move under pressure but return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps of a children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself. Protected by such pads, sores in bedridden patients were not only prevented but also healed. When...
...informal lobbyists for their schools. With the Federal Government now spending billions of dollars annually on research, many U.S. schools have decided that it makes sense to have men who specialize in developing good Washington contacts. At least 20 universities consider the job of keeping watch on how the pie is divided important enough to have or share a full-time representative in the capital...
...stickers are turning up in all sizes and colors: WATCHING TV MAKES YOU STERILE, APPLE PIE IS FLUORIDATED, GOD IS ALIVE AND HIDING IN ARGENTINA, CONSERVE WATER-SHOWER WITH A FRIEND. In Los Angeles, Adman Emil Reisman has started national distribution of his stickers, including USE EROGENOUS ZONE NUMBERS and HIRE THE MORALLY HANDICAPPED. "The Sticker thing," muses Reisman, "is sort of related to drawing beards on ad ladies in subways," which just about says...
...area set aside as a memorial to President Kennedy, a building containing the archives of his administration, a museum, and a building to house the Institute of Politics. But the five, presently used for a repair yard by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is a large one, and Pie decided early that he did not want to have large expanses of grass of parkland. The Library was to being urban memorial, he said. He suggested that "support facilities"--commercial buildings for the use of visitors and members of the University community--be built on the site...
...conceived it in a speech at Howard University last June, then appointed a 30-man council to bring it to life. An amalgam of civil rights leaders, businessmen, educators, labor-union representatives and public officials, the council dreamed up a 104-page report that seemed to ask for a pie in every sky. Specifically, it called for sterner enforcement of civil rights statutes, "guaranteed employment" for all able to work, and equalization throughout the country of per-pupil spending on public education while nearly doubling the figure to $1,000 a year...