Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light as soon as they are struck by the solar protons. On the dark side, the meteorites cannot luminesce because of the-240°F. cold; instead, they absorb the energy of the protons. During the two-week lunar night, Sun estimates, one pound of meteorite particles would soak up more than enough energy to burn ten 100-watt light bulbs for one hour...
What most of them don't know is that the bins contain a potent pre-soaped solution designed to soak off sticky food particles that would otherwise become encrusted during the dishwashing process...
...generally black-marketed in impregnated sugar cubes, costing from $2.50 to $5 for 100 micrograms, enough for an eight-to ten-hour trip. Another way of transporting small quantities is to mix them in water, soak the solution up in a handkerchief and let it dry-to be cut up later into squares, which LSD users chew. LSD is hard to track down because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely...
...pile need not grow forever. Under President Johnson's proposed Food for Freedom program (TIME, Feb. 18), recipient nations would pay for U.S. food in dollars under a long-term credit arrangement starting in 1971. Meanwhile, the U.S. is considering establishing binational philanthropic foundations to soak up much of the cash and use it primarily for education. A bill to start such a program languished in committee last year. Congress apparently could not believe that the Administration really needed help to spend money...
...make sure that other competition does not grow too strong, Field Enterprises has bought up a string of 13 suburban weeklies and a modern offset printing press on which the Day will initially be printed. Field will also distribute a shopper-a throwaway containing mostly ads-in order to soak up any additional advertising in Arlington Heights...