Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retired amateur golfers wearing CAT-Deisel hats turned their heads and smiled with bare tolerance at the sexy young "thang," cast some bawdy aspersions, and returned their thoughts to the giant plastic orange propped up over the citrus fruit shop. We had stopped at "The Orange Ring...
Abandoning his half-tied sneaker, he lifted a plastic windshield and carefully snapped it into place. Nodding his head, he asserted, "It's to protect it. There's armies in this world, you know." Jonathan sleeps in this large, sunny room, in one of the beds which line the walls. He has lived since he was three at "the Italian Home for Children" in Jamaica Plain. I played, observed and attended meetings there last fall for Psychology and Social Relations 910r, an independent study course on children in institutions...
...he/she sets Magico on a counter for the disdainful inspection of a stern young man who might be an oral surgeon or IRS agent manqué (22-J). Inspector will variously diagnose the appliance (22-K to 22-Z) as klunky, a lemon, mismanufactured, nonfunctioning, off-brand, plastic, quirky, rachitic, substandard, tinny, unredeemable, valueless, wonky, Xrated, Why-Fix-It? and zapped already...
...face of this major ecological disaster, French officials were helpless. Winds howled so furiously for most of the week that plastic barricades failed to contain the drifting slicks. Emergency crews were reluctant to use detergents to break up the oil because they feared long-term toxic effects on marine life. Instead, fishermen worked day and night to move valuable oysters and scallops to other waters or to rush them to market...
...summer after Carrie was completed, Travolta found himself one of the tube's major attractions, a status that snagged him his own made-for-TV movie, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. The part was the first serious test of his dramatic talent. The experience, and its aftermath, turned out to be the most serious trial of his young life...