Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anguish of peptic ulcers, there was encouraging news last week: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the general prescription use of a new drug, cimetidine. It shows greater promise than many previously acclaimed anti-ulcer drugs because it works by a different mechanism. Cimetidine reduces acid production in the stomach wall, allowing the ulcers to heal...
...stand-by bicarbonate) may cause harmful side effects. Bland diets-baby food and milk and cream-are unbalanced and unsatisfying. Antispasmodic drugs are of dubious value and have serious side effects. Surgery to cut out part of the stomach or sever the nerves that govern its secretion of acid is painful and expensive. Often it does not work either...
After 17 years of gigs with Husband Ike, Tina Turner is divorced and gyrating alone. The "Acid Queen" has added some soft ballads to her repertory and toned down her husky voice. "The ears get a chance to rest a little bit," says Tina, 37. When she tried out her new sound in Las Vegas, her backup group, the Ikettes, was gone but her ex, Ike, was right there -in the audience. "We're friends really. There's no war," says Tina. Their 1976 divorce, she feels, was good for her. Explains Tina: "Before, Ike was always there...
...words, he "went crazy." With a packed audience in front of him, he walked off the stage. What had happened was that he realized he was not Cosby, the smooth, controlled comic of the cerebrum. He was, if anyone, Lenny Bruce, the angry, violent screamer from the acid gut. Pryor changed his act, bringing it back in spirit to Peoria's black ghetto and the mean streets all over the U.S. He started to talk in the argot of the pool shark and the hustler, a language so obscene that it is no longer obscene, with four-letter words...
Americans alone ingest more than 50 million tablets of aspirin nature a day. In addition, aspirin, known chemically as acetylsalicylic acid, is the primary ingredient-and often the only active one-in nearly 50,000 over-the-counter (nonprescription) drugs now available in the U.S. Unlike many other drugs, aspirin is so mild that most people can take it for years in proper doses without suffering any serious problems or developing resistance to it. Even more remarkable, doctors seem to be finding promising new uses for the trusty old remedy-for example, as a possible preventive for heart attacks...