Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dependent on humidity. They prefer to travel and graze only when light rain is falling or when the ground is wet with dew. The rest of the time they sleep safely shut in their shells, sometimes sealed into them with a membrane of dried mucus. Their senses of touch and smell are acute, but the little eyes on the ends of their tentacles are not efficient; they must be moved very close to an object before the snail really sees...
...What is the next highest priority group? The matter was too inflamed even for the emollient Rockefeller touch, and HEW passed it. Best guess: children one to four years old will win. But this might be a poor choice: the mass trials in 1954 indicated that the vaccine is far more effective for children over...
Such reactions are essentially the same whether caused by weightlessness, a rough sea or an obnoxious mother-in-law." Inside Problem. Generally, the experiments indicate that a human who can see or touch something to orient himself will be able to fight down the warnings from a sensory system gone haywire in weightlessness (much as a pilot learns to fly his airplane by what his instruments tell him even though this contradicts what his balance system tells him). Scientists are not yet clear what may happen without any touch or sight reference-for example, to a man inside a free...
...young human animal is the most sensitive of all testing materials for polio virus. It looks as though a vaccine containing only a few stray particles of active virus-which might do no harm to a monkey or great ape when injected into the brain or spinal cord-may touch off paralytic disease when injected into a child...
...season's one good comedy, William Inge's Bus Stop, was its most generally satisfactory play. If clearly small-scale work with a touch of formula about it, it made up in vividness and humor for what it lacked in originality and depth. Comedy otherwise was never more than spottily bright. Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach had engaging scenes but an eventual monotony, while a succession of Rainmakers and Reclining Figures rained too frequently or reclined too long...