Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frontiersman's traditional snake bite remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...
...supported by such churchmen as Reinhold Niebuhr and Bishop James A. Pike, the committee claims to have pledges of deposit withdrawals totaling $22 million. Defenders of the committee argue that there is ample precedent for such a boycott: most Protestant churches refuse to invest in companies that manufacture alcohol or tobacco products. Boston's Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. believes that the churches should no more support apartheid, even implicitly, than they should buy "real estate that was being used as a brothel...
Beyond the Pale. Taylor's biography fully illuminates a woman whose antipathy was by no means limited to booze. "Stated loosely," the author writes, "Mrs. Nation was against alcohol, tobacco, sex, politics, government (national, state and local), the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan." At one time or another, she delivered haymakers against them all. "I never saw anything that needed a rebuke, or exhortation, or warning," she explained, "but that I felt it my place to meddle with...
...increased fatigue of a holiday season is sometimes blamed," Prout said, "but I don't think fatigue is so unusual at Harvard." "Increased consumption of alcohol is also cited by some people," Prout added...
...only journalist ever allowed a private interview with Jack Ruby after his arrest, Penn Jones naturally decided that hers could be added to "that list of strange deaths." Even Ramparts editors could not swallow that one, conceded that "no serious person really believes" Kilgallen's death-from alcohol and barbiturates-was part of the plot...