Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final session, Johnson persuaded the Koreans and the Vietnamese that Point 29 would not be misread as a hedge for a U.S. pullout at any price. "Nobody can accuse us of a soft attitude," said the President. "If anyone doubts the basis of our commitment, they will find that we have more troops in Viet Nam than there are words in the Webster's New Dictionary...
...filtered. Visitors were barred because they might carry metalliferous dust; even research-staff members had to take their shoes off before entering the animal rooms. The animals were fed a diet with a meticulously defined metallic content, and their pure drinking water was superpurified. Whether it was hard or soft depended on how the investigators treated...
...type remarkably similar to the human disease. More females than males developed the disease, but it was deadlier to the males; the animals developed fatty plaques in their aortas, and showed enlargement of the heart. When rats receiving cadmium were divided into two groups, 80% of those on soft water developed high blood pressure as against only 17% of those on hard (calcium-containing) water. When the animals were treated with a drug that substituted zinc for the cadmium already in their tissues, blood pressures returned to normal...
Civilized man, said Dr. Schroeder, ingests an excess of cadmium from tea and coffee, refined flour and polished rice, some phosphate-fertilized crops- and water pipes. Soft water, he declared, takes up cadmium, a contaminant in copper and galvanized pipes, far more readily than does hard water...
...took to wearing unpressed suits and a soft grey shirt and, writes Thompson, "brought his arrogance and grouchiness under at least temporary control. His remarks were usually cheerful, witty, mischievously playful." Thompson concludes this phase of Frost's life with the newly successful poet preparing at 40 to return to America. Frost's ambition now was to find a farm in New England where he could "live cheap and get Yankier and Yankier." He did, and so did his work...