Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Justice Warren worried that the ruling would place gamblers in a "privileged class." In his opinion, no self-incrimination occurred until registered information was used to aid prosecution. Rather than declare the law unconstitutional, he urged, why not restrict the use of such data...
...use of alcohol to save premature babies was the discovery of Anna-Riitta Fuchs, a physiologist at Rockefeller University, who found that alcohol given intravenously to animals shuts off the production of oxytocin, the hormone that activates labor contractions. Mrs. Fuchs is the wife of Dr. Fritz Fuchs, obstetrician in chief at New York Hospital; during her fourth pregnancy, she began to have premature contractions, and thus became the first human to receive the treatment suggested by her animal research...
...when her house was being burgled, Dave is sent up for a twelve-year stretch. Promising to wait for him, Joy starts divorce proceedings against her husband. She works as a barmaid and as a nudie model for the kind of moist-lipped amateur photographers who don't use film in their cameras. Then she begins taking men to bed more for fun than profit. "If I turned professional," she tells a chum, "I'd lose the pleasure of it." Joy dreams about Dave and visits him regularly, but when Tom gets out she lets him move...
...myth-sized American natural (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 Ibs.), born in the mountains of North Carolina. His eating, his boozing, his lovemaking, his flashes of temper and his formidable output of words, spoken or written, were indulgences on a massive scale. His self-pity and his ruthless use of others, both in fiction and in reality (his own family, mistresses, editors), made it plain to friends and perceptive readers that Tom Wolfe asked more of life than he had the talent to pay for. So harshly did he caricature his native Asheville that the title of his last...
Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell agreed to allow a two-part review of the Belt. A six-month "feasibility" study will decide if the $300 million highway is still needed. A concurrent "joint development" plan will try to find ways to use the Model Cities and other federal programs to cushion the blow to the City if the road is built...