Word: gelatinous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...samples look like light coal dust, but "half or more of the loose stuff is broken-up shards of glass," Frondel said yesterday. Individual pieces are actually white, green, brown or colorless. Besides these fagged particles, the researchers have found smooth beads of glass, shaped like dumbells, baseballs, and gelatin capsules, roughly a millimeter longer...
...used to force the bullet fragment within Barrios' brain into a safe spot in the soft tissue surrounding the upper ventricle. Lippe took the problem to NASA's nearby Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, where tests were made by whirling a bullet fragment through gelatin of approximately the brain's consistency. Researchers decided that the idea was worth...
Reconstructed from the recollections of admirals and mess cooks, aviators and boatswain's mates-both Japanese and American-Lord's account of the two-day battle is supercharged with acts of individual courage. Marine "Gunny" Deacon Arnold concocts anti-invasion mines with blasting gelatin stuffed into lengths of sewer pipe. Movie Director John Ford, wounded during the first Japanese strike, keeps on shooting with his camera. Lieut. Rokuro Kikuchi, his "Betty" bathed in flame, waves goodbye to his fellow airmen...
...small band of FDA investigators have had to devise their own techniques of investigation. Some of the brand marks impressed on tablets and printed on gelatin capsules are such expert forgeries that the agency's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (TIME, May 5) has developed a science it calls "pillistics," an equivalent of ballistics that adapts microscopy and other laboratory tests to tracing counterfeit medicines to a particular machine...
...wires. And despite the unfamiliarity of its name, collagen (from the Greek kolla, or glue, and pronounced col-uh-jen) has been popular in the humblest homes for centuries. When the hides and bones of animals are boiled down, they yield that denatured but widely used form of collagen, gelatin...