Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before approving the use of polymers on its ships, the British Admiralty is investigating the possible pollution hazard of polyethylene oxide. Tests are under way to determine if the chemical is harmful to marine life, and whether it will accumulate near the surface or eventually decompose and dissipate in sea water. There is apparently no question, however, about the effectiveness of polymers in increasing a ship's speed. Their use has been banned by England's Amateur Rowing Association...
Before this year, some girls could lock their rooms from the inside; however, locks on the outside of doors were considered to be a fire hazard. J. Boyd Britton, administrative Vice president of Radcliffe, made the decision that locks should be installed on the outsides of doors so that girls could lock their rooms when they left...
Another-and increasingly serious-hazard to air travel continued to plague airlines last week when four planes were hijacked to Cuba within as many days. Two of last week's incidents involved foreign airlines: An Avianca DC-4 captured on a local flight and a Peruvian National Airlines Convair 998 Fan jet en route to Miami. The third was an Eastern Electra taken over on a run from Miami to Nassau. Finally, late Saturday, a United Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 20 people was hijacked on a flight from Jacksonville to Miami...
...oilfield-service firm, has developed a slippery powder called Instant Banana Peel, which is guaranteed to turn any street rumble into a sit-in. Baltimore-based AAI Corp.. a defense contractor, has come up with a tear-gas grenade with two crowd-control virtues: it has no shrapnel hazard, and it expels its chemicals in seconds-before it can be picked up and pitched back at the police. A company official says that its grenade sales doubled in 1968, and will double again as soon as "the riot season starts...
This highly sophisticated joining of visual and literary artistic parts makes the distinctive McClelland style a wonderful one that might someday be widely significant. But implicit in such complexity is the hazard of too-muchness. Very rarely, McClelland interjects one little irrelevancy that is just too irrelevant--it is this that makes "The Great Goodison Toad Hunt" a chore to re-read for the fifth time (if that can be termed a fault...