Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves with at least a two-week supply of both water and food. For drinking, one quart of water per shelter occupant per day is considered necessary; in addition, another daily half-gallon per person is recommended for washing and other sanitation purposes. Although water should be stored in plastic or metal containers-blast might break glass bottles-anything would do in an emergency. The food should be imperishable or long-lasting, and neither salty nor sweet, to inhibit thirst. Says Margaret Moore, nutritionist for the Louisiana Board of Health: "Keep a few canned vegetables you can eat cold...
...efficient shelter are an air-intake-exhaust system, a first-aid kit, flashlights and a battery radio (the shelter may need an antenna; otherwise, the radio might be useless underground). Chemical toilets are available at reasonable prices; the minimum provision for disposing of human waste is a stock of plastic bags. Among other useful items: sanitary napkins (which can double as bandages), toothache pills, tranquilizers. deodorants and air purifiers, tight-lidded garbage cans, matches, a can opener, bunk beds with paper sheets, books and games for children...
...Jacobey and colleagues began by giving dogs standardized heart attacks by injecting plastic pellets into their coronaries. Five out of six dogs died. Then they hooked up six other dogs, also given heart attacks, to a small, simple pump that is timed by the electrocardiograph. When the heart contracts, the pump is relaxed and actually withdraws a little blood. When the heart relaxes, the pump gets in its "beat"' and forces blood through the aorta into the coronary arteries. After two hours on the pump, five out of these six dogs lived...
...ever shall be, world without end"). In a full recitation, which takes 20 minutes, the user goes around the rosary three times, and the Hail Marys, including the required extras, total 153. Rosaries are not necessarily beads; manufacturers of religious gadgetry, despite general church disapproval, peddle plastic counters and clickers with buttons to press and needles to point...
...success. George deals authoritatively with his work. "I simply will not associate myself with anything I don't believe in. like the artichoke hairdo. I don't like it. and I won't do it. and that's that. I will take no one with plastic shoes or purses, and I won't do anybody under 18." His clients include Cyd Charisse, Hedda Hopper, Mrs. Henry Ford II and Anita Colby, all out of their teens, and not one of whom would be caught dead in plastic. And George is as admiring of his patrons...