Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Fertig's inventive leadership, the guerrillas governed entire provinces, printed their own money, ran their trucks on alcohol distilled from coconut beer, even maintained a miniature but useful navy. Most important was probably the coastal watch that one day spotted the Imperial Fleet making its sortie toward the Mariana Islands, intelligence that was radioed to Australia and Pearl Harbor, helped win the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Fertig's forces, never more than 40,000 men, forced the enemy to commit more than 150,000 troops in its final effort to clean up Mindanao just before MacArthur...
...Robert B. Payne reports, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a sick story about nutmeg. Two students at the University of North Carolina heard from a beatnik friend that it would give them a jag like a combination of the effects of alcohol and LSD or mescaline. The two lads each took two tablespoonfuls, the powder equivalent of two grated nutmegs, in a glass of milk. Within five hours they had a leaden feeling in their feet and legs, and an airy, dreamlike sensation in their heads. Their hearts were beating in double time. They were...
...last January, beset with financial and alcohol problems, Philby suddenly disappeared from his Beirut home...
...block letters on the sides of their cars-and they owe it all to a 500-lb. hunk of aluminum, nickel and cast iron that is just as tough as they are: the Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. Force-fed by fuel injection, the Offy gulps methanol (wood alcohol) at the rate of one gallon every four miles. It has only two gears-low and high-and four cylinders, but it turns out 100 h.p. for each cylinder, and it can propel a racing car at 180 m.p.h. In 29 years of rattling its pistons in the Indy 500, the Offy...
...less harmful than such narcotics of ill repute as opium and heroin, more fashionable than such gauche inebriants as airplane glue and laughing gas, and, in their effect, the closest things yet to fulfilling Aldous Huxley's prophecy of a drug having "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol with none of the disadvantages...