Word: cocktailing
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...prunes, the U.S. has progressed to curds, concentrates and capsules. Each year, reports the American Medical Association, ten million Americans spend $900 million on vitamins, tonics and other food supplements. At juice bars in Los Angeles' 35 "health" stores, a new sensation is a pink, high-protein cocktail, concocted of dried eggs, powdered milk and cherry-flavored No-Cal, which sells for 59? per 8-oz. glass. Grocery stores sell dozens of foods that boast of having almost no food value...
...moderate doses, alcohol narcotizes the appestat and enhances appetite (the original reason for the cocktail); but because liquor has a high caloric value-100 calories per oz.-the heavy drinker is seldom hungry. In rare cases, diseases such as encephalitis or a pituitary tumor may damage the appestat permanently, destroying nearly all sense of satiety...
...hordes of U.N. delegates packed to leave for home, hearty holiday farewells at the final cocktail parties replaced the loud bickering of debate. What with the greatest assemblage of world leaders in modern history and the admission of 17 new member nations, the General Assembly's go-day session had been the noisiest and busiest on record. It also marked a change in the character of the U.N. itself...
...ship designed to keep waterways that usually freeze open all winter has been patented by Engineer Frank C. Ehinger, 79, of Adrian, Mich. Circular saws mounted like plow disks in front of the ship cut the ice. It is forced back up a ramp into the ship, crushed to cocktail-size chips and spewed clear of the chan nel through a pipe. Ehinger says an oil company, which he will not name, has bought the rights to build...
...cocktail party in Chelsea you run into anti-Americanism as expounded by a public school man: 'Those dreadful cars . . . And isn't the food tasteless . . . and they have really no manners...