Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less vibration), needs little overhauling, and can probably outlast an auto body. It requires no oil changes or Antifreeze, can use any kind of fuel that can be sent through a pipe and that will burn with air. "It will run beautifully on diesel fuel, peanut oil, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, furnace oil-or even French perfume," says Engineer George Huebner Jr., conjuring visions of service stations equipped with Chanel No. 5 atomizers...
...build conscience, Phenix would teach respect for all forms of life. Geography, for example, would go far beyond maps and place names to the responsible use of air, earth and water. Lessons in health would illustrate abuses in everything from alcohol to industrial waste. Since sex "provides the crucial case of desire at odds with devotion," Phenix would encourage "a fresh acceptance of the ideal of sexual purity" as one method of fostering "dedication to standards of worth...
...because of the fundamental delusion that a virus is the principal cause of colds, everyday experience notwithstanding. The fact is that a common cold is due to an overwhelming, generalized vasodilation of the body's capillaries, brought on by a combination of factors such as exposure, overeating, oversleeping, alcohol, viruses, dust, frustration. Thus the typical candidate for a common cold is a man who on Saturday night ate a big dinner, followed by several alcoholic drinks, then took a hot shower, overslept in the morning, and got into an argument with his wife about cleaning out a dusty closet...
...find the reasons behind so many of the actions which alarm them." In her briskly written, though not startlingly new, account of parents' problems and ways to solve them, Author Purtell deals with such phenomena as going steady, parties, the adolescent revolution, and the adolescent and alcohol. Like Tiffany's Hoving, Parent Purtell advises nonchalance and an understanding hand with the kids. Parents, she says, "should stop torturing themselves...
...daring action," the memo noted. "It is difficult for most people in India to take seriously a claim to religious insight which is not accompanied by an element of austerity in regard to such matters as food and living conditions ... It would be wise to limit the use of alcohol and tobacco, to avoid extravagant spending, and to accept with serenity any small discomforts or difficulties which one may encounter...