Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Richard Clark, an Anglo English teacher. Clark, an austere-looking man with a crew cut and a deeply lined face, has been teaching at the academy for nine years. At the blackboard, several sophomores are diagraming sentences. A timid girl with glasses identifies a predicate phrase modifying a compound verb. When she's finished, Clark scans the room and says with a wry smile, "Paulette, you're the next volunteer." Paulette, a tiny girl with a large pompadour, dutifully marches to the blackboard and, in a spidery hand, diagrams a sentence with a nonrestrictive relative clause...
According to Cambridge Water Superintendent John J. Cusack, Jr., one of the most important changes in the city's water process will result from a decision to switch from a purification system using liquid and gas chlorine to one using a chlorine compound called sodium hypochlorite...
...Crimson's blue line, the fourth to take the ice, showed the team's balance by making the score 2-0 with 9:51 to play in the period. Junior forward Tim Burke, standing behind the Brown net, fed sophomore linemate Steve Flomenhoft at the crease to compound Haywood's nightmare...
Like the retrovirus used by Anderson, Rosenberg's delivery system has been made harmless and endowed by recombinant DNA techniques with a human gene. But this gene codes for tumor necrosis factor, a naturally occurring compound that attacks cancer cells. The altered viruses insert themselves and their piggyback gene into the genetic material of the TILs, which are then injected back into the bloodstream of the melanoma patients. If everything goes as planned, the activated TILs will home in on the tumors like guided missiles, attacking the cancerous cells and at the same time releasing the antitumor factor to help...
Williams said about 344 Indian nationals were evacuated from the U.S. Embassy Compound yesterday and brought to the USS Saipan before departing for Freetown...