Word: squirts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will the mood of radio listeners change? Can the hot-talk hosts continue to squirt scalding water on the body politic without one group or the other crying "Enough!"? If 1994's electoral trend continues, there may soon be few demons left to bitch about. And as Grant misses "those nice days when I was the only conservative on the scene," many radio rightists betray a truculent nostalgia for the old foes who became their roadkill: Cuomo, Howard Metzenbaum and the man from Arkansas who roams the White House like the Ghost of Clinton Past...
...this reasoning, even metastatic cancer may eventually be brought to heel. Squeezed into a tiny cubicle day after day at the National Cancer Institute, Patricia Steeg stares at colonies of aggressive breast-cancer cells that have shut down the protective nm23 gene. Soon she will squirt over these colonies newly identified antitumor compounds. Among them she hopes to find one, maybe more, that interferes with metastatic growth. A total of 14 of these compounds are already sitting in a freezer in her lab -- white crystals that cluster like snowflakes in the bottom of test tubes. If these fail to have...
...must be maintained at high pressure. But spiders produce silk in the open air using water as a solvent. "I am absolutely fascinated," says University of Washington materials scientist Christopher Viney, "that such an incredible material starts out as a solution in water, and all the spider does is squirt it out through a small hole. In the process, proteins that were soluble turn into insoluble fibers. Now, isn't that amazing?" Just as amazing is Viney's discovery that spider silk in its soluble phase forms a liquid crystal rather like the displays on digital wristwatches...
...saboteur "was remarkably adept in placing the glue in the readers andknew exactly where to squirt it," said Nathans...
...squirt gun is an unlikely symbol for a libertarian movement and "getting government off our backs." But if store owners are denied one of their most popular toys in a recession starved economy, the nest slogan heard on the streets of Boston could be "live free...