Word: slimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's chances to equal last year's sixth-place finish seem slime. But the team will have an opportunity to rack up points tonight in the finals of the 50 free and 500 free. Cahalan was the 50-free champion in 1969 and is among the favorites tonight, while Steve Kranse will be a top contender in an exceptional 500 field...
...series of oil tanker leaks covers the Atlantic with shiny black slime. The sun is reflected off this surface, causing a tremendous heat wave in which the average temperature in Cambridge is 140 degrees. The Ad Hoc Committee on The Weather finds the heat to be a "social" and not an "academic" issue, and Harvard refuses to get involved until the Holyoke Center air conditioning fails. Meeting in emergency session, the Faculty votes to allow people to eat in the Faculty Club without coats and ties. After the meeting, George Wald calls reporters into his test tube to applaud...
...speed. Within the past year, the agency has clamped down on polluting industries and has asked the Justice Department to prosecute ten companies accused of polluting the waters of seven states. Investigators found that the worst offenders were paper companies that either used mercury to prevent the formation of slime in the production of paper, or chemical companies using mercury cells to separate chlorine from brine solutions...
Within each of these grandiose categories, Kelman outlines a few even more stereotyped characters. The SDS members are frequently linked with words like "Nazi" or "kill." Their smiles are like "slime" and they are forever talking of shooting Kelman. The moderates are simply too stupid to see through any of the SDS rhetoric. And so they follow mindlessly along, while Kelman wails in the background...
...after experiments with various slug killers. In a four-day test, he found that the standard bait, metaldehyde (which must be mixed with arsenic), attracted and killed only 28 slugs. Even then, the chemical caused the slugs to slug back: reacting to the poison, they exuded "copious quantities of slime" that Smith describes as "revolting to householders." By contrast, a shallow pan of beer lured 300 slugs: they sipped, then slipped, and happily drowned in the brew without a fight...