Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacks. On March 30, 1965, a terrorist drove a sedan loaded with explosives up to the guard post of the American embassy in Saigon and killed 20, wounded 190, many of them Vietnamese passersby. Three months later, a V.C. bomb blasted the My Canh houseboat restaurant where Americans often ate, killing 43 people. A favorite terrorist gambit is to set a Claymore mine to go off some minutes after a primary explosion, thus killing rescuers and the inevitable crowd that gathers at a disaster...
...your July 24 issue, you had an article about pregnant women eating laundry starch. I really did not believe it. Then I started asking my own prenatal patients, who come in for blood tests at our clinic. My results are four out of ten eat starch, two ate clay, and one was addicted to cement. Unbelievable...
...study of Boston schoolgirls, Dr. Mayer found that obese girls ate less than normal-weight girls of the same age and height. But the obese girls expended only one-third as much energy. Mayer agrees that obesity has no single, simple cause; such hereditary factors as metabolism and body build, as well as reaction to stress, are also involved. But there is one universal way to control obesity-exercise...
...Bible tells us that Abraham fed it to his guests. Assyrians ate it for their health and, according to Pliny, Persian women believed it to be good for their skin. In Iran, the sour, thick fermented milk is called mast, and one of the most popular brands is "Mickey Mast." The Greeks know it as oxygala, and it is filmjolk in Sweden. Bulgarians have always had the reputation of being the world's greatest yogurt eaters but, thanks to the energies of a Paris company called Societe Danone, the French, of all people, are taking over the championship. Last...
...eccentric Russian scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, is basically responsible. Puzzled by the longevity of villagers in the backwoods of Bulgaria, he bent over his test tubes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the early 1900s and concluded that so many Bulgarians lived to be more than 100 because they ate lots of fermented milk. Their yogurt contained Bacillus bulgaricus, which, Metchnikoff decided, chased out the "wild, putrefying bacilli in our large intestine." He consumed untold gallons himself, discoursed profusely about what he believed to be its beneficial effects, and died at the age of 71, leaving behind a mere handful...