Word: thetic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rayon was the first of all the syn thetic fibers, but its sales slipped badly as nylon and other new synthetics came on the scene; when Du Pont closed down the last of its rayon-producing plants last year, it seemed that rayon's day was finally over. But, with surprising fortitude, rayon has refused to be pushed into oblivion; it has survived as the largest selling artificial fiber in the U.S., and now accounts for more than a third of the volume of the $1.9 billion synthetic business. After slumping for five years, rayon sales have jumped...
Long before the operation, often the night before, the patient gets a preanes-thetic, usually a barbiturate, to quiet him down. In the morning, he may get more of the same, or a morphine-type drug, or both. Next, atropine to help keep mucus from clogging his air passages. In the operating room at last, a clout of barbiturate (often thiopental sodium) to put him to sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases...
...thetics (George Russell Sextet; Riverside). Exercises in introspection by six men whose style is occasionally so cool it congeals. In warmer moods, the soloists-particularly Don Ellis on a hoarsely tender trumpet-are first-rate, and the songs, with their lopsided choruses and barely articulated melodies, have their own tantalizing outer-worldly charm. Included: Russell's own Ezz-thetic and Lydiot, Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight...