Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wine: Fermented juice of grapes." -Webster's International Dictionary "Crush the pulp and stone of dates in a container, mix with hot water, clarify with lead acetate, add sugar to the mixture, then add chloridic acid. Heat to 60 or 70 degrees Centigrade. Let cool immediately and neutralize with potash." -Fake-wine recipe quoted in Italian court
...nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused to cross the picket lines thrown up by striking members of the National Football League's Players Association. But that crisis was averted when Toots Shor agreed to act as water boy for both teams...
...THEATER OF CRUELTY. To demonstrate a new type of insulating foil, Union Carbide places a baby chicken in a small foil-lined metal box and then lowers it into a beaker of boiling water. Several long moments later, out pops the chick, frisky and unfried. The initial plunge is not exactly Grand Guignol, but it does provide a bit of a shock. A recent spot for American Motors shows a gang of men demolishing a competitor's car with sledge hammers. Who would admit to hating autos? Still, there is a certain undeniable thrill in seeing all that shiny metal...
...swirling bath, containing bloodlike salts and acids, known as dialysate. The blood's impurities (but not the blood cells or vital proteins) pass into the bath through minute porosities in the cellulose, and then go down the drain. Some models require a pump to circulate and renew the bath water, while others rely on gravity or faucet pressure. Some depend on arterial pressure to get the blood through the machine and back into the patient; some use a pump...
Avram, 38, who is an assistant professor at Downstate College of Medicine as well as head of his hospital's mechanical-kidney unit, began his economical setup with Army-surplus water tanks for mixing, storing and delivering dialysate fluid to his eleven artificial kidneys. He uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported...