Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this way monotheism led Mohammed to ethics. Like the Jews, he interpreted the First Commandment so strictly that Moslems were forbidden to make any kind of picture or "image," and the ban holds today. He forbade the use of alcohol, and the majority of Moslems have obeyed this prohibition through the centuries. (Today, most well-to-do Moslems who have social contact with Westerners do drink.) Mohammed sternly forbade sexual promiscuity, but for males this was greatly modified by permitting men to have as many as four wives, to divorce them at will, and to keep concubines in addition...
Powered by a 300-h.p. V-8 engine, Le Sabre at present has a top speed of 130 m.p.h., with minor adjustments is expected to do 150 m.p.h. The 10-to-1-compression engine runs on a mixture of alcohol and premium gasoline. Built of light aluminum and magnesium alloys, Le Sabre weighs 4,000 Ibs., less than many standard U.S. convertibles. Even though its 115-inch wheelbase is the same length as a Chevrolet's, Le Sabre rides like a Cadillac...
...bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled vials of alcohol...
Bitterly, the great actor booms out his own prescription: "No women, no tobacco, no alcohol . . . not too much work." But once out of the doctor's office, he hurries to souse himself in cheap red wine, then makes love to his wife's redheaded chambermaid...
...find out how rhodopsin works, Biologist Wald extracted a protein called opsin from the eyes of freshly killed animals and mixed it with vitamin A and two enzymes (organic catalysts): alcohol oxidase (from horse livers) and cozymase (from yeast). When this mixture is placed in the dark, the enzymes convert the vitamin A to retinene, a yellow pigment. Then the retinene combines with the opsin to form bright red rhodopsin...