Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...
...distinction has been institutionalized to protect the club ideal of egaliarianism, Birge feels. "Intellection is banned because anything that tends to mark out one member from another creates hierarchies. Using your head can pull you one step above the next person. The guy they like is the one who can talk on any subject the other person brings...
...maximum interest to 5% on C.D.s of less than $10,000. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman wants to outlaw all C.D.s on the ground that they have become "financial monsters." Congress will probably give the Johnson Administration about what Fowler asked. Whether it will act fast enough to protect savings and loan associations from heavy savings losses after their semiannual dividend payments next month is doubtful...
...plot concerns a poor Czechoslovakian farmer named Tono Britko who becomes the "Arvan manager" of a button shop owned by Mrs. Lautmann, an aging Jewess. The other Jews in the village pay Britko to protect the old woman until deportation orders bring an end to the arrangement. Britko must then decide whether he will hide Mrs. Lautmann from the Nazis or protect himself by sending her away...
...game birds as quail, partridge, pheasant and grouse, all the eggs in a nest tend to hatch at about the same time-even though they were laid several hours apart. The value of the phenomenon seems obvious: it enables the mother bird to leave the nest for food and protect her brood without worrying about any unhatched eggs. But how is the hatching synchronization achieved? No one has known. Now it appears that scientists were simply not listening hard enough to hear the obvious answer...