Word: vat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin, Vat 69, Rise) and bits of Old Glory, he is now something else, something both more and less than Vian's Smurtz...
...reporters who watched while Luis Jose Monge [June 9] choked to death in the Colorado gas chamber, I take issue with your statement that "five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious...
...room on the third floor, he stripped to his shorts-condemned men must wear as little as possible so that cyanide will not cling to their clothes and endanger guards-and walked into the gas chamber. Five seconds after a pound of cyanide eggs had been dropped into the vat of acid beneath his chair, he was unconscious. Sixteen minutes later he was pronounced dead...
...part, the Common Market demanded that the U.S. get rid of its 1922 law that bases tariffs on certain chemical imports, drugs and rubber footwear on the American selling price of those products. The result is extraordinarily high import duties-up to 172% in the case of yellow vat dye-but only Congressional action can abolish the system...
Worried by this vulnerability, the Vat ican Council urged diocesan bishops as well as parish priests who are "less capa ble of fulfilling their duties properly be cause of the increasing burden of age or some other serious reason" to resign voluntarily from office. Last month Pope Paul VI, who is 69, "earnestly request ed" that bishops and priests leave office on their own initiative...