Word: chews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Papain, an enzyme derived from the papaya plant, is a familiar item to most housewives. Sold in grocery stores as a meat tenderizer, it can make even the toughest cuts easy to chew. Now papain is moving from the kitchen into the operating room. At hospitals in Boston and Chicago, doctors are using the extract (known medically as chymopapain) to tenderize slipped spinal discs, a treatment that relieves pain and spares many patients surgery...
Foil--Roy Nonomura, Cornell; Richard Peretti, Princeton; Paul Chew, Columbia; Sabre--Losonczy, Columbia; David Jacobsen, Yale; House, Yale. Epee--Larry Kramer, Columbia; Daryl Taylor, Pennsylvania...
...course, none of this has been getting too much attention lately. About the only thing for which people are still criticizing Ford is his alleged lack of intelligence, a criticism that has been made for years. Lyndon Johnson reportedly once remarked that Ford was too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time, because in college, Johnson explained, Ford had played football on too many occasions without wearing his helmet. When Eugene McCarthy spoke at the Law School Forum here two years ago, he apologized for having supported legislation that Ford came out for five years later. "When...
Here was where people came to buy their coca. Two-foot high transparent bags appeared green with the small leaves that the Bolivian Indians chew as part of a tradition dating back millenia. On the altiplano, where the nights are wintry and food scarce, the coca leaves, when chewed hour after hour, help to drive out the cold and to kill one's appetite. These Aymara no longer live on the altiplano, but it is still cold at night and food is far from plentiful. Shipped in hugh quantities from the jungle, the coca sells for incredibly cheap prices...
...nearly-combed black hair and dark-frame glasses, sits at one of the four tables in the small store. He stares down at the steaming anchovy-and-onion pizza. With a slow, deliberate move he tugs at a piece of pizza, lifts it to his mouth, and begins to chew it, savoring his solitude with each melancholy bite...