Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aseptic surgery a century ago, but he showed uncanny prescience when he picked carbolic acid for the germ-killing spray in his operating rooms. Temple University's Dr. Mor ton Klein has been comparing germi cides, and reports that Lister's phenol, or carbolic acid, is as potent as the fancier formulations of modern chem istry against most viruses; it is actually more potent against some of the small est viruses, which cause many respira tory diseases and polio. Also potent are sodium hypochlorite and near-pure al cohol. Restaurants and hospitals, sug gests Dr. Klein, should have...
Biological Weapon. The parasites have been found only in association with ants Apparently, they cannot live except when fed by the fire ants with their regurgitations. This dependence makes them promising as a potent biological weapon. But the department's scientists will not bring the parasites to the U.S. and turn them loose until it is certain that they will not upset the balance of nature in some unexpected and possibly harmful...
Mirage offers prime-quality suspense up to the crucial point where the film tries to put its jigsaw plot in order. His amnesia beaten out of him, Peck recollects a top secret potent enough to neutralize radioactive fallout but not enough to keep a provocative movie from heading toward a mundane and faintly preposterous conclusion. Getting there is all the fun, but no one wants to find that out during the last reel of a thriller...
Sonny's performance in Miami was somewhat pathetic, but anyone who saw either of his two knockouts of Floyd Patterson cannot underestimate the man. If Liston went into the ring on crutches, he would still be a potent threat...
...Epidemic. Barish and Brown got onto Mom's trail because the tranquilizers being handed out at Brown's East Side Narcotics Center were not helping addicts to fight the seething anxieties of withdrawal. The two men soon learned that the once potent medicine had not suddenly gone sour; the addicts' mothers were either not giving their boys enough of the tranquilizers or were flushing the pills right down the toilet...