Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard contracts with Waltham Chemical to spray all the Harvard Houses during the summer when most of the rooms are empty. They sometimes encounter problems when summer students refuse to let the exterminators into their rooms or when the students have not had enough time to prepare the rooms for spraying, Berman said...
Jeffrey F. Sagansky '74, a Lowell House resident, explained how he and his roommates handle the problem. "When we see a cockroach we spray it and the area around it with aerosol," he said. "That stops it from moving; then we just take a match to the whole thing...
...streets of San Francisco to protect their confreres against just such attacks. Formed by the Rev. Ray, a Pentecostal Evangelist and known homosexual who himself was once beaten severely outside his gay mission center, the Panthers patrol the streets nightly with chains, billy clubs, whistles and cans of red spray paint (a substitute for forbidden Mace). Their purpose, as the Rev. Ray candidly puts it, is to strike terror in the hearts of "all those young punks who have been beating up my faggots...
...Newspaper editors like to think that their product provides food for thought. Now agricultural engineers at the University of Missouri report that it may be time to take them literally. Using ground-up newspapers to filter water containing algae, Richard Spray, Neil Meador and Donald Brooker found that the newsprint effectively trapped the single-celled plants, which are rich in protein. After a while, such a thick layer of algae built up on the newsprint that it had a higher content of crude protein than dried beef, soybean meal or skimmed-milk powder. Though the Missouri scientists do not suggest...
...best Godards, the director has timed his camera to cut away just when things grow unendurable. Boredom is an important part of real social documentation, although in spite of it we never feel here that these workers are too immiserated. At some points the deftness of a spray painter, or the practiced touch of a door fitter, becomes surprisingly absorbing; at others, the jerky, repeated shifting of an eye as a girl watches her machine, or a stoic machinist impart the pain of a single muscle and the exhaustion of an unmoving face...