Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pessimistic conclusions. It is in less startling, but far more significant areas that the atom has already had permanent impact--in the form of radioactive isotopes. Radioisotopes play roles of tremendous importance in the treatment of cancer, materials testing, and in archaeological dating. Many physiological secrets, Woodbury predicts, will shed their mystery with the aid of new techniques of radioactive tracing. Woodbury briefly explains the tracer clues in photosynthesis, which scientists are now pursuing in an attempt to uncover the mysterious catalysts that hold the key to synthetic food...
...Dixon-Yates power contract, Commissioners have publicly and vocally disclosed their differences of opinion, pulling the Commission ever deeper into political conflict. Whatever the worth of the Dixon-Yates plan and the justice of the various security decisions, these complex problems have been handled in a manner that has shed heat, but not light, on the country at large. The Commission itself must share the responsibility for allowing such questions to turn into intense political controversies. Spectacles like last month's running dispute between Commissioners Strauss and Murray over whether the agency is doing its job properly are not likely...
...silicone product that will make leather virtually waterproof. First use of the chemical (trade name: Sylflex) will be for shoes. The Charles A. Eaton Co. will use it on golf shoes; Endicott Johnson Shoe Corp. will try it on a combination work-and-sports boot. Treated shoes will shed water, still allow air to come through to cool the foot...
...Bimba ("Get away? Just to change the mosquitoes? No, thanks") are hooked on the same cruel question mark: How to get back to civilization? Suddenly they get a vein-freezing answer. An oil well catches fire. Only an explosion can put it out. The nearest nitroglycerin sits in a shed 300 miles from the blaze-in the very town where the men happen to be. The oil company, a U.S. outfit, offers $2,000 apiece for four good drivers with the guts to truck the soup, over roads that hardly deserve the name, to the scene of the fire...
...sport." Though St. Jerome complains that the 4th-century minx had some shockers up her sleeve ("Her upper garment sometimes falls ... to show her naked shoulders, and as if she would not be seen, she covers that in all haste which voluntarily she showed"), he has no light to shed on what was up the gentleman's. Courting, "in the modern sense," did not exist until the 12th century, when the troubadours discovered the art of "rewriting ancient tales in a new romantic idiom, with as little conscience as a team of film scriptwriters falsifying the Old Testament." Since...