Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take a tiny pinch of the powder are convinced that it enhances their libido. They believe that if you devour parts of a powerful animal, you will absorb its sexual vitality. And if bear gallbladder fails, they will contrive potions and lotions from the hump of the camel, the penis of the tiger or the horn of the rhinoceros...
WHITE, who is a lawyer in California and the author of Human Debris: The Industrial Worker in America, begins Merchants of Death with details from his own life as a Camel addict. He reveals that he was drawn to smoking by peer pressure and the conviction that the habit was considered to be a "cool" thing...
...getting a tryout this spring as the National League's first female umpire. But in the 100 years since baseball teams first came South, alterations have seemed slight. The late writer Francis Stann of the late newspaper the Washington Star once asked the failing Babe Ruth in his camel-hair coat what ( he remembered about Al Lang Stadium in St. Pete. Motioning toward an old hotel a full city block beyond the right-field fence, Ruth rasped, "The day I hit the West Coast Inn." "Wow!" said Stann. "Pretty good belt." "But don't forget," Ruth added, "the park...
Spilhaus is director and chief detective of the Boston-based Camel Hair & Cashmere Institute of America. The group, founded in 1984, is a watchdog agency supported by seven major textile firms. "Nearly 30% of the cashmere sold in the U.S. is mislabeled," says Spilhaus. "Because the demand for cashmere is strong and prices are high, the incentive for shoddy operators is great...
Meanwhile, the counterfeiters have no shortage of substitutes. Some weavers remove the coarser fibers from camel hair to make it feel more like cashmere. Others use yak hair. Says Spilhaus: "The cheating is limited only by the imagination of the cheaters...