Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alcohol is his study, and Author Morris Chafetz can speak with authority. As a doctor, psychiatrist, and currently director of the Alcohol Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital, he has observed the whole range of human reactions to alcohol, from the fanatical teetotaler to the Skid Row bum. And after all the misery that he has seen resulting from the abuse of alcohol, Dr. Chafetz still proclaims that liquor, properly used, is indeed the friend...
...those who worry about bad influences on American youth were consistent, they would simply apply the same rules to the sale of literature that seem to satisfy them concerning alcohol and tobacco. A "No Sale to Minors" sign in bookstores would still permit adults to obtain any and all literature. There would be no censorship...
...there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet. Undemanding in doctrine, Islam calls upon its adherents, if they wish to be rewarded at the Last Judgment, to praise God five times a day while kneeling toward Mecca, fast during the holy month of Ramadan, abstain from alcohol and pork, give alms, and, if possible, make the hajj. Man's sexual nature is amply served by Islam, which permits four wives-providing they are treated equally-and unlimited concubines...
...that Moslem devotion, outside of rural areas where social pressure to conform runs strong, is often little more than skin-deep. Morocco still fines men caught smoking during Ramadan, and Malaya's Moslem courts zealously crack down on khalwat (close association of the sexes). Saudi Arabia has neither alcohol nor movies, but even here faith is succumbing to the influences of modernism: this year Jeddah will have a TV station...
...process the hydrogen gives up electrons that flow out of the cell as electric current. But hydrogen is a touchy, expensive fuel, and since it is a very light gas, only small amounts can be stored in large, un wieldy pressure tanks. The Esso cell burns familiar methanol (wood alcohol) and gets its oxygen free, out of ordinary...