Word: cankering
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...tried a few things. They worked! For two years, I coped with seasonal allergies and tonsillitis by using the herb echinacea and calendula tea. I have seen what the uncontrolled prescribing of antibiotics can do. Through alternative medicine, I have found treatments for such things as hyperactivity, impetigo and canker sores. We should not give up on conventional medicine, but it is the true healer's obligation to present all the options available, regardless of the type of medicine he or she practices. KATHLEEN OAKFORD Farmington Hills, Mich...
...could it be? If Leavitt and Peirce were this cheap I would develop lip cancer before graduation. But as he handed me my change, Tim lowered his voice and leaned across the counter. "Between me and you, chief, those aren't Berings." As the night wore on and canker-sores began to sprout in my mouth it became more and more obvious to me that Tim had been right, that for seventy five cents I had gotten not a Bering, but a falsely-labelled fifty cent cigar of Phillie Blunt quality or lower. But while I didn't come away...
...Still, when an Etruscan tomb is emptied, a church desecrated, a Mayan temple bulldozed and a museum Vermeer yanked from its frame, it is hard to see how rich societies, let alone poor ones, can enjoy art in peace for long. In turning a blind eye to the canker that feeds on it, the art world is losing security, losing art and losing its soul...
...festers like a canker in the minds of many of the 2.7 million Vietnam veterans and the 750,000 Vietnamese who live in the U.S. The 3,600 members of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia still believe there may be loved ones locked in prisons hidden somewhere in the impenetrable Annamese Cordillera. What-might-have-been gnaws at some of the draft dodgers who fled to Canada or into the National Guard. Certainly the war prompted career choices for young men who joined the Peace Corps or enrolled in graduate school to stay...
...temporary ban was imposed in 1984 to halt an epidemic of canker, a deadly plant disease. In response to the end of the ban, Texas declared a 30- day embargo on Florida imports to allow time to make a case that canker remains a threat. Florida growers, who sold $25 million worth of citrus in the banned states in the 1983-84 season, aim to challenge the Texas embargo in court...