Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luck rather than the thoroughness of the identification standards set up by racing officials. American-bred horses are required to bear lip tattoos in most states. However, tattoos often fade with age and-as was often done by rustlers in the Old West-can be altered. The only foolproof form of identification is comparison of the chestnuts, or night eyes-horny growths on the inside of the legs. Like fingerprints in humans, no two sets of night eyes are the same. But registration of the night eyes and tattoos is not made until a horse is brought to a track...
This recipe is foolproof. You can use various types of shortening-chicken fat, bacon grease or anything handy. If you have some very valuable coffee left over, this can serve as part of the liquid. Or fruit juices. Or if you want to add a little rum, I have no objections...
...airline captain for one of our largest carriers, I congratulate you on doing a fair and factual piece on aviation safety [April 11]. The machines have become as sound and foolproof as man can design-but man himself is the weak link...
Despite the vast improvement in flight safety during recent years (TIME, April 11), neither man nor machine has been made foolproof. In clear skies last week, after an American 707 took off from St. Louis, one of its four engines fell off. The pilot easily landed, and a team of experts began looking into the possibility that metal fatigue may have caused the pylon bearing the engine to break away from the wing...
...always an easy task in areas where modern medicine is virtually unknown-WHO used a simple two-pronged needle developed by Wyeth Laboratories. It held just a single drop of vaccine between the points and could be used to make 15 quick jabs into the skin-a nearly foolproof technique that almost anyone could master...