Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...deteriorate as soon as it leaves the veins, the needle used by Dr. Cohn's team has a special inside coating to keep the white cells from sticking to its sides and being destroyed. From the needle the blood flows through a plastic tube lined with a resinous compound to remove the calcium and keep it from clotting...
...Germany. Brushing past guards, explaining that his companion was an important representative of a satellite nation, the Russian took the Congressman to a newly built airfield, where he proudly pointed out a line of swept-wing jet planes of late design. Then he drove on to an armored infantry compound where he waved a hand "at about 20 new, turretless, heavily gunned Russian tanks which appeared to stand no more than three feet off the ground. Chatham, entering into the spirit of the occasion, gravely got out his camera and took photographs of the Soviet weapons-which he later sent...
...indefinite future a vast, complex organization that would be needed, no one knew when, that might never be needed at all. Uncertainty posed a psychological dilemma. Keeping civilians in a constant state of fear would produce impossible local demands on government, provoke the panic in an emergency which would compound catastrophe. Kept in a state of induced calm-even if that were possible-people would get apathetic...
...Spanish Gardener (Little, Brown; $3) comes from the medicine chest of a real M.D., British-born A. (for Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby...
Vonnegut thumbed through fat books on crystallography. At last he spotted a promising compound: silver iodide. Its molecules do not resemble water molecules, but they build into crystals almost exactly like those...