Word: rinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rotten tree lives only in its rind...
...slogs through his days dulled with despair, not even bothering to stew himself with vodka. Then he sees a five-year-old orphan boy gnawing at a melon rind. Out of pity and his own sorrow, he tells the child that he is his father. The boy is not really fooled, but he accepts the pretense with joy. The two walk off down a mud road to the man's village, where he will take up life as a carpenter again...
...their role as priest-substitutes, the more far-out directors run into trouble with the real thing. One we met said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with neo-Platonism was to assert that clergymen like that 'just want to kill sentiment,' an interesting possibility...
...answer lies in finding economical ways for converting salt and brackish water into fresh water. To rind the best methods the U.S. is building five demonstration plants across the nation, each using a different system of making fresh water. The first plant at Freeport will be followed by a plant designed by the Fluor Corp. at Point Loma in San Diego. It will produce 1,000,000 gallons a day, using atomic energy as the heat source for distillation. Its goal: water at a cost of 42? per 1,000 gallons...