Word: barkings
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...breakthrough represents a new stage in the ancient battle against malaria and the insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
Roiling seas and winds gusting to 40 knots buffeted the bark on its first night out of Bermuda, but when Andrew Freeman, 22, of Wallasey, England, finished his watch at 4 a.m., the fury had apparently subsided. "For some reason I stayed up on deck," he recalled later. "The boat was sailing along really well and fast, and it was a nice feeling to be up there." That decision probably saved his life. "Those below did not stand a chance," said Philip Sefton, 22, also from Britain, who was at the helm. He described the deathly blow that struck...
...area, causing the swelling and redness known as inflammation. The purpose of this is to attract infection-fighting blood cells that will ward off any invading bacteria. Since the days of Hippocrates, doctors have been relieving pain with salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin that was derived from willow bark, but only in the past 15 years have they understood that it works by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins. Tylenol (the most common brand of acetaminophen) works much the same way, as do popular prescription analgesics like Clinoril (sulindac), Motrin (ibuprofen) and Dolobid (diflunisal), often used to relieve arthritis...
Though Richardson concedes that he must work hard to appeal to state Democrats--Massachusetts is, of course, one of the strongholds of old-line liberalism--he soft-pedals discord between himself and the Reagan Administration, whose hard-line policies, he claims, are more bark than bite...
...everything else," writes Alexander Haig, "a servant of the President owes his chief the truth." In his forthcoming book, Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published this month by Macmillan, the former Secretary of State serves up the truth, at least as he sees it, with the bark off. He describes an Executive Branch marked by guerrilla warfare and backbiting, and portrays himself as an "outsider" up against "an Administration of chums...