Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major department stores, Christmas planning starts just about the time that the kids are breaking their first Christmas toys-the day after Christmas past. The long preparations begin with studies of sales slips, to determine what sold well, what proved a bomb. After that come committee meetings, buyers' meetings, salesgirl meetings. By mid-January, buyers are packed and jetting off around the U.S. and to faraway countries to find merchandise and to place orders. When shipments arrive, some stores slip a few new items on the counters to see how they sell; if customers pick them up, the items...
...more than absurd, they are bestial and very evil. The crucial incident of the first chapter (Snow's novels abound in crucial incidents) is not a hasty or disastrous slip of the tongue, as it is the gruesome death of a young assistant keeper who is crushed to death by a diseased giraffe. For the Zoo's leaders, however, death has only a Snowbound political significance: Falcon, the Curator of Mammals, is directly responsible for the killing, but Leacock, the Director, decides not to mention the incident to him because in his own campaign for a "National Zoological Reserve...
...years, the one clear mark of the virus was this ability to slip invisibly through porcelain filters. In those four decades, without waiting to see what a virus looked like, brilliant men did brilliant things about viruses and viral diseases. At Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Peyton Rous in 1910 proved that a filterable virus is the cause of sarcoma (a kind of cancer) in chickens. At Harvard and then at the Rockefeller Foundation, South Africa-born Max Theiler performed the delicate and dangerous feat of getting yellow-fever virus to grow in the brains of mice. With infinite...
...viruses were found to have horns or spikes. On some of these is an enzyme that can dissolve part of a cell's outer coating. Presumably, this is what the flu virus uses to open a hole in the cell-factory wall for its nucleic-acid core to slip through. A virus known as T2 bacteriophage (it attacks bacteria) was found to have a tadpole shape; the "tail" is like a coiled spring around a tiny hypodermic needle that stabs the cell wall, and through this the nucleic-acid core is injected. Micrographs show whether viruses are basically cubic...
...that in some unpredictable cases, a molecule of viral nucleic acid, without its protein overcoat, so closely resembles a gene that it can slip into the cell's chromosomal lineup, displacing a normal gene, and make the cell reproduce abnormally. Most of the resulting abnormal cells would probably die, but a few might retain the power to run wild and perpetuate themselves as cancer...