Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waves to the Center. Dr. Copson explained that it is all done by freeze-drying. When a material that contains water is frozen and placed in a vacuum chamber, the ice crystals in it sublime, i.e., turn directly into water vapor without melting to water. Pharmaceutical manufacturers use freeze-drying to preserve sensitive drugs, but the process is difficult, and it had never been successfully adapted to low-cost materials like foods. Another difficulty is that a considerable amount of heat (heat of sublimation) is required to evaporate the ice crystals. This heat must reach the center of the material...
Raytheon gets around this problem by putting frozen foods in a vacuum chamber and shooting through them a powerful blast of ultrahigh-frequency radio energy. The waves agitate the molecules in the interior of the food and generate just enough heat to make the ice crystals turn directly into water vapor. If the job is handled properly, the food loses up to nine-tenths of its weight and turns into a brittle sort of substance while staying far below the freezing point. Chemical changes, which would damage flavor, cannot take place. Even unstable vitamins are preserved...
Platform Republicans. The White House was pumping fast to fill the vacuum. Ike had attempted to toss responsibility for budget cutting back to Congress with his letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposing minor cuts (TIME, April 29), but that tactic impressed neither Congressmen nor constituents. Now it was time for pressure on all fronts. Rallying point for the attack: the Republican platform...
...political conservatism loose in the land? Few Congressmen-except the Old Guard Republicans-thought so. Said New Jersey's Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, 41, Eisenhower Republican: "The Congress is restive, frustrated. The interesting thing is to watch what kind of force rushes in to fill this political vacuum...
...involuted garrulity of its predecessors into new labyrinths of confusion. There is all the usual apparent clumsiness and a kind of deliberate illiteracy, e.g., characterizing the Snopeses in general. Faulkner mixes five metaphors in about half a sentence: "[The Snopeses] accreted in from Frenchman's Bend into the vacuum behind the first one's next advancement by that same sort of osmosis by which . . . they had covered Frenchman's Bend, the chain unbroken, every Snopes in Frenchman's Bend moving up one step, leaving the last slot in the bottom open for the next Snopes...