Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showmanship and passion. When the steam is up, he is likely to blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin with a slow, throaty, lyrical blues, punctuate the piece with jagged staccato yelps of outrage, and then...
...little life may fall. From 1952 to 1959, 102 people drowned in the backyard. And the present accident rate costs Los Angeles some 30 lives a year. By law, pool owners must fence pools off from public access. To forestall accidents, some nervous pool owners use tarpaulin or plastic covers on their pools. Others have rigged them so that an untimely splash sets off an alarm...
...diversification grew out of the companies' own products, as oilmen turned to producing petrochemicals from oil and gas. When that field became glutted, they began buying companies that made consumer products out of petrochemicals. Standard Oil of Ohio now owns the Prophylactic Brush Co. (toothbrushes), Phillips Petroleum makes plastic film for the packaging industry, and Continental Oil is preparing to market a detergent that does not clog sewers with foam...
...neighbors back home in New Mexico considered McCanless as loco as a headless road runner. He has embarked on history's last Long Trail Drive, across macadam highways and through skyscraper-canyoned cities at the head of his herd-which consists of one aged cow with a plastic window in her side...
...experimenters would present a child with the option of making a choice (in this case, between two plastic toys), then give him permission to change his mind. The "mind-changing apparatus" would record the time elapsed between the child's first choice and second choice, or second and third...