Word: powders
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Maximum Penalty. Kepone, a lethal white powder that was widely used against ants, roaches and potato bugs, was developed by Allied in 1951; in 1974 Allied turned the manufacturing of Kepone over to a newly formed Hopewell firm called Life Science Products Co., which was owned by two former Allied staffers and got both its equipment and raw material from Allied. Judge Merhige dismissed as unproved a prosecution charge that Life Science was an Allied "captive," set up merely to spare the big chemical company the bother of complying with the pollution laws. But the judge's sentence suggested...
Humphrey, a beloved party figure whose final chance to reach the top had been brushed aside in the Carter sweep, enjoyed the convention's most intense display of affection. Resplendent in a youthful powder-blue suit, the man who would have been elected President in 1968 if he had been afforded even half the degree of party unity that Carter now enjoys, received a cheering, whistling ovation. Maine's Ed Muskie, passed over finally for the vice presidency, was warmly applauded as well...
...June 29, the six-gun brig Nancy was smuggling West Indian gunpowder to Philadelphia when she was trapped by British warships. Under cover of fog, her crew beached her off Cape May, New Jersey, and unloaded 265 barrels of powder-leaving behind just enough for a large explosion. They then lit a long fuse to a keg of powder and fled. Five of the British boats emerged from the fog and sent boarding parties onto the Nancy. Just as they took possession, with three cheers, the cached gunpowder went off. Says one witness: "Eleven dead bodies have since come...
...woman who wants to be chic starts by having her hair stiffened with perfumed animal fat; the hair is then whitened with powder and molded over an egg-shaped wire frame usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
...ridiculous. As the squire blunders on, he defends even Britain's encouragement of Indians "t'amuse themselves with scalping knives." As for General Gage's occupation of Boston, "his mercy is without dispute/ his first and darling attribute." The general tried to seize the stores of powder and arms at Concord merely to prevent the Patriots from harming themselves, "as prudent folks take knives away,/ Lest children cut themselves at play...