Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a passive model is being tested, the air in the tunnel is sent around a circuit and used repeatedly, but jet engines or ram-jets poison the air with their exhaust gases. New air must be taken from the atmosphere, and its excess moisture eliminated. So the tunnel is provided with a monstrous air dryer stocked with 1,890 tons of activated alumina, which soaks up 1.5 tons (ten bathtubs) of water per minute. On a muggy day the alumina has to be dried out after two hours, and this takes enough gas burners to keep the whole city...
...come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed into marketable products. On the horizon: hybrid trees that will reach marketable age faster-and yield much more lumber...
...events of his time and to other people. Man, says Simone, is free, but his freedom to choose will surely lead him to destruction if he retreats before the come-and-go of his time. Heroine Anne sees all this just in time. She puts away her poison vial and determines to be useful to her family and friends. The last words of the book are hers, and they are about as optimistic as a careful existentialist novelist ever lets a heroine become: "Who knows? Perhaps one day I'll be happy again. Who knows...
...over blacks, of Protestants over all the rest--each ethnic group owes it to itself to prove its often imaginary purity. The government has in vain stepped up publication of its propaganda posters and buses shows three new-born babies, with the inscription "Just born all Americans. Do not poison...
When one morning the sheets on his hospital bed were found covered with ink, the Russian explained that he had been drinking ink as an antidote for poison which he thought was being given him. President Lowell persuaded Saradjeff to return to Russia, where he eventually died in a sanitarium...