Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact sheet it publishes, the hospital boasts of the following statistics: "The present hospital census is below 1300 patients although there is an annual admission rate of about 2400 persons and more than 500 patients and their families have made use of the facilities and services of Boston State Hospital in the past year...
...astronauts will leave a third item, the solar-wind experiment, on the lunar surface for only two hours or so. Soon after emerging from Eagle, they will place on the lunar surface a sheet of aluminum foil suspended from a stand. It will be exposed to the constant stream of particles expelled by the sun and should trap rare gases such as argon, krypton, xenon, neon and helium. Returned to earth in a vacuum box, the captive gases will be analyzed to give scientists new insights into the sun and the "wind" that it blows through the solar system...
...from Slavery. The result was a list of wage demands. Max consented, but in a Steppenwolf mood decided to sell the paper. Enter Timothy Leary and a rich friend who came to town to talk about buying the Barb for $250,000 and turning it into a psychedelic-trip sheet for the acidhead community. Oh, no!, exclaimed the tribe, which wanted to make the paper into a kind of revolutionary New York Times. Leary and friend then became "honest brokers," suggesting that Max sell the paper to the tribe- for $1,000 a week for 140 weeks, plus interest...
...houses also represent a dramatic break with the past. After years of treating the Indians as a tarnished remnant of American antiquity, the BIA suddenly wants them to live suburban-style in three-bedroom ranch houses. But the canyon dwellers, accustomed to huts made of rock, sheet metal or scrap wood, neither understand nor trust the offering...
...buildings visible beyond the tall elms. Mingling with the smell of fresh-cut lawns were whiffs of another kind of grass-pot. A few of the 2,420 robed graduates wore white armbands on their sleeves to protest the war and the draft, and two students held up a sheet bearing the legend...