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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services Department, said yesterday the distributors who supply food to the University are responsible for delivery, and would probably use an alternative trucking company if the Teamster strike begins to affect their deliveries...
Pointedly excluded, or specifically frowned upon, are such Americanisms as "bottom line" and the use of "alibi" to mean any excuse, rather than its strict judicial meaning of being somewhere other than at the scene of a crime. But such immigrants as "commuter" and "lobby" as a verb have now been accepted into the Queen's English. Happily or not, the indelicate "hooker" has also crossed the Atlantic, although usually in Britain the term refers to rugby players...
...Using highly sensitive radioactive tracing techniques, laboratory workers can spot HCG with almost 100% accuracy. The home kits use a somewhat less sophisticated procedure. Typically, they contain a test tube with the HCG antibody, sterile water, a stand and a dropper. If the woman adds a few drops of her first morning urine to this test-tube brew, then lets it sit for about two hours, a doughnut shape or ring should form on the bottom of the glass if she is pregnant. Warner/Chilcott, producer of one popular line of the kits, claims that its product, on first test...
...came onstage with shaking hands, and shot through the Liszt with authority but blinding speed. At rehearsal, Ozawa had tried without success to slow Liu down. Finally, he said, "We shall try to support you." Just barely, the orchestra succeeded. The pianist defended his interpretation. Said he: "Liszt used technique to express himself, so I use it to immortalize...
...council passed the ordinance, which also calls for attendants at sites with pinball machines and restricts the hours school children may use the machines, on a 7-1 vote. "If I had my way, I'd ban the damn things altogether--they serve no useful purpose," Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy told the council, councilors described pinball arcades as "public nuisances" and said that school children were skipping school to play pinball...