Word: whitish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frightened parents snatch hopefully at news of any new drug for treating infantile paralysis. One such new drug is called Darvisul. A whitish powder and a member of the sulfa family, Darvisul's scientific name is N-( 2-thiazolyl)-phenol sulfonamide. At Lederle Laboratories, where it was developed, its "working names" are phenosulfazole or Drug...
...lasting peace, 1946's woman had other quests. In the U.S. she scrabbled for dwelling space, for bread (in the spring) for meat (in the fall) and for sugar (at year's end). In China's Hunan Province she sought any food at all (including a whitish clay called, pathetically, "Goddess of Mercy"), but she did not find enough, and thousands starved while relief distribution was immobilized by red tape. In Germany she sought cigarets; in Russia, shoes; in Britain, sheets. She learned (what she had long suspected) that privation marched with the victorious armies as well...
Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through the knee-high wheat. In the No. 1 wheat state of the world's greatest wheat-producing nation, it was harvest time...
...woman brought out another tray of weeds and rice husks. A fine whitish powder covered the bottom...
...breed in which the cancer strain was particularly high. Bits of cancer tissue from infected high-strain mice were sliced, put in gravity-defying centrifuges. The materials thus separated from malignant cancer cells were put back in the centrifuge for a second whirl. What was left was a whitish, dustlike powder-grim carrier of the virus...