Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gold shows some tendency to concentrate in cancerous lymph nodes, but the metal stays in the body indefinitely after it has lost its radioactivity. Silver concentrates faster, and the body gets rid of most of it. However, radioactive silver is hard to make in a pile and therefore is hard to get. So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold...
First he pulls the cardboard out of a shirt that has just come back from the laundry. Then he smears it over with a neutral color. After that he holds a brush above it and lets some house paint drip. Finally, he sprinkles the whole affair with gold or silver powder. The result: a series of Jackson Pollock-like abstractions, about as modern as modern can be. Renny's matter-of-fact name for them: "drip paintings...
Loaded. In Pittsburgh, when police searched Jucile Oberman, who had chosen a ten-day sentence instead of a $5 fine for drunkenness, they found 34 Ibs. of silver coins in his pockets...
...parents of Marine Second Lieutenant Douglas H.T. Bradlee '50 will receive their son's Silver Star medal at Navy Yard exercises this Friday...
...empty cup. John brings me a plate, Barnett brings me a tenderloin, John brings me asparagus, Barnett brings me carrots and beets. I have to eat alone and in silence in candlelit room. I ring. Barnett takes the plate and butter plate. John comes in with a napkin and silver crumb tray-there are no crumbs but John has to brush them off the table anyway. Barnett brings me a plate with a finger bowl and doily on it. I remove the finger bowl and doily and John puts a glass saucer and a little bowl on the plate. Barnett...