Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deciding whether a "polio victim" actually had polio, or some other disease that causes similar symptoms. Every case must be confirmed by virus tests. Then, physical therapists check again on the victim's neck muscles, breathing, use of legs and arms, ability to speak clearly and to chew food, to measure the degree of lasting damage. This is necessary because the vaccine's usefulness may be of an in-between kind; it may not prevent all polio infections, or even paralysis, but yet cut down the degree of paralysis...
...TIME FOR SERGEANTS, by Mac Hymen (214 pp.; Random House; $2.95), is the comic saga of how the U.S. Air Force grabs a Georgia cracker and learns it has bit off more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection...
...staid Germans, who find gum-chewing G.I.s and tourists unspeakably schrecklich, the German Medical Association had a shocking announcement. Despite the bad effect of sugar coating, "Chewing inspires the flow of saliva and thereby improves the teeth-cleaning process. [It] makes teeth more sound, now that people no longer eat hard food or chew their food thoroughly...
...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
...lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which it causes in some subjects. Dieters sometimes take amphetamine to cut their appetite, but most doctors consider this dangerous. Convicts used to chew the Benzedrine wafers from inhalers to get a quick lift, until the manufacturers changed the formula...