Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instrument of God. Desai rises each morning at 3 or 4 to pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments...
Kuehnle, who is also clinical director of the alcohol and drug abuse research center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, said the 1971 study is not totally valid since the painful process used in the testing, pneumoencephalograms, involves injecting air into the brain and could conceivably cause further brain damage...
...everyone watching the parade yesterday was Irish, it appeared that at least every cop on duty there was just a generation removed from carrying a shillelagh instead of a night-stick. But if the Town of Southie has any laws concerning the public consumption of alcohol, they were not enforced by those men in blue wearing green carnations. Many of the reddest noses were found in places like Tom English's Cottage and Chauncey's pub, establishments packed to the rafters with old, freckle-faced ale-lovers and smiling lassies and laddies ordering up Heinekens because they like the color...
...former alcoholics, John Thomas, 28, and Jack Salazar, 27, seized twelve people in a New York City hospital to protest the closing of an alcohol detoxification program. Result: they surrendered peacefully...
...just as Chairman Mao said to [French Foreign Minister Maurice] Schumann [on a visit to China in 1972], Mao applied a drop of alcohol and Lin Piao was finished." [Mao probably meant, figuratively, that he rubbed Lin Piao...