Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol...
...sticky raw opium. Some of it they use themselves: when a Meo child complains of an ache, his mother may blow opium smoke into his mouth to ease the pain; for Meo adults, opium smoking provides a goofing-off pleasure that is their substitute for the combined attractions of alcohol, tobacco, literature and other forms of escapism...
...European and Asian halves of the Ottoman Empire, to its near destruction in World War I. At Visegrad, in what is now Yugoslavia, the right bridge had found the right people, an amiable mixture of Serbs, Jews and Turks with an immoderate love of women, an inclination to alcohol and laziness and a dislike of war, for they were men who "preferred to live foolishly rather than to die foolishly...
Finally isolated, it turned out to be a yellowish, fatty substance with a subtle, not unpleasant odor of leather. Study of its chemical structure revealed a relatively simple formula: C10H30O- technically an alcohol. The million cocoons had yielded only a barely visible...
...even more popular alcohol department, the guests have consumed 75 cases of liquor and 300 cases of beer and ale thus far in the reunion. Yesterday 22 bartenders were busy keeping the Class of '34 happy--and happier and happier...