Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kistiakowsky's wartime career is noteworthy and somewhat frightening because he designed the triggering mechanism for the atomic bomb. He describes his involvement in explosives research as "a matter of pure luck." Kistiakowsky said he "expected like other chemists to become involved in chemical warfare." He offered his services in June 1940 to the National Defense Research Committee. "Conant told me, 'Get involved in explosives research,' which I thought was like being sent to Siberia." Kistiakowsky said he spent the summer of 1940 in libraries and "discovered that explosives were a very unexplored matter...
...Viet Nam policy was not the work of any lobby. It has not been deeply influenced by Republican or Democratic partisanship and certainly has not been a vehicle for individual career ism. It has been quite "pure" executive policy, conceived and carried out by honorable and able men; indeed, some very brilliant men have had a hand in it. Yet in many respects it has been badly bungled under three Presidents of two parties...
...where most heroin is diluted with milk sugar or quinine to 5% strength or less, the drug is usually mainlined with a needle, a process that not only is unpleasant but also carries a considerable social taboo. In Viet Nam, by contrast, the heroin is so pure-95% or better-that it can be smoked with an equally powerful effect. Many G.I.s long since caught up in the pervasive marijuana culture have fallen prey to the myth that heroin is not addictive if smoked. Now a joint of heroin is passed around a group of soldiers in exactly the same...
That night Boston Joey, completely blind in one eye (his left eye has been a glass one since the age of six months), and with no sleep for more than two days (he had been playing Cabiash and Barbouffe) stroked the balls in the hole on pure talent. In a straight pool game to 100 against "Honest. Jim" Looby of Quincy House, he ran close to three racks while having a hard time staying awake at the table...
...some vitamins-is still open to debate. If these compounds exist, they are extremely rare and difficult to detect. This means contamination by terrestrial compounds is a real problem. Such contamination could occur if the sample containers leak, if the chemicals used in the test techniques are not absolutely pure, or if the rocket fuel burning produced complex organic contaminants...