Word: spray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California farmer who markets produce supposed to be "organic"-free of insecticide and chemical fertilizer-is known to spray his crops at night to protect them from insects and himself from his customers' wrath...
...Tester for clearly exceeding the 2.5% price increase guideline. Last week the Cost of Living Council announced that the Justice Department has filed a suit charging Testor with unlawfully collecting revenues in excess of $150,000. The suit also complained that Testor had hiked the price of its spray paint by 14% and recommended that a federal court order the company to reduce its prices enough to allow customers a saving equivalent to the alleged illegal revenues...
...rotor turns, the air is forced through a transfer port into the cylinder of the power piston (2). Continuing its rotation, the power piston compresses the air even more (3). As the piston's cylinder moves past the fuel injector, the compressed air is mixed with a spray of gasoline (4). Then, as the cylinder edges by the spark plug, the fuel-air mixture is ignited (1). Pressed by the expanding gases, the piston begins the equivalent of the power stroke. All the while, it continues its rotary motion (2, 3 and 4). Finally, as the power piston...
...faces hurrying down the sidewalks suggested that in New York, personality and companionship had ceased to exist in public places--except as they had been re-invented by the younger and more adventurous city-dwellers. One re-invention of public personality that has recently swept New York is the spray-painting and magic marking of every available surface, especially subway cars, by teenage graffitists. Their calling cards are everywhere in the city, proclaiming that these teenagers may be crazy, but they are surviving: Junior 151; Mouse 162; Super Kool...
District of Columbia reformatory, the vaccine, which is administered by nasal spray rather than injection, proved highly effective. Seventeen of 28 prisoners not given the vaccine came down with the flu after intentional exposure. All 17 others who were vaccinated remained free of the ailment. Nor did the men suffer any ill effects from the vaccine itself. Current flu vaccines often produce minor symptoms of the disease such as dizziness, headaches, low fever and slight nausea...