Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheep, because even FDA supersleuths have not been able to find any residue in these meats, provided that growers stop feeding the substance to the animals at least 48 hours before slaughtering.) Manufacturers agreed to stop selling stilbestrol to caponette raisers, and the farmers agreed to stop using stuff they will no ' longer be able to get. The Department of Agriculture was stuck with the job of buying up $10 million worth of caponettes already on the market...
Novelist Gary died before he could finish his book, but his imperfect work has more of life's stuff in it than all but a few of the year's other novels. His hero is a seedy, reedy British faith healer. Gary's unanswered question: Does the mystical hipster sometimes feel more truly than the Establishment square...
...clothing-factory manager joined in. "We never know what fabrics we are going to receive tomorrow or the day after. This fall they sent us some light stuff suitable for topcoats. But the factory was already making winter overcoats with fur collars. Nichevo! We have to attach black fur collars to light topcoats. And the same thing happens with the collars as with the cloth. We use whatever they send us. We sew cheap fur onto an expensive overcoat." Result: there are 342 state "ateliers" in Moscow alone-not to mention myriads of moonlighting private "tailors" employing Russia...
Some newspaper editors like the idea. "I think it's an intelligent device for distributing news releases and handouts from commercial concerns," said the Los Angeles Mirror-News' managing editor, Ed Murray. "A machine like this doesn't commit you to use the stuff, and I think one's judgment of the news value is likely to be better if it comes in by a machine. And it helps cut down on all that opening of letters...
...simple aggregation and juxtaposition of atoms. For that, a mysterious identity must absorb and cement them, an influence at which our mind rebels in bewilderment at first but which in the end it must perforce accept." The third property of matter is energy-"the most primitive form of universal stuff...