Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Macmillan was more determined than ever to push ahead with a European Free Trade Area, linked with the six-nation Common Market. "This is an opportunity which we cannot miss," said Macmillan. "It may not come again...
Statistician Dublin's most sweeping statistic: "Next to the common cold, tooth decay is probably the most universal disease suffered by mankind." His most precise: men and women aged 40 to 44 who have spent their lives in areas with naturally fluoridated water average only three missing teeth; those in non-fluoride communities average 14. Tooth decay has declined 54% to 60% among youngsters in city after city where fluoridation has been practiced for about ten years...
...Bathtubful. Are fluorides poisonous? Yes, says Dr. Dublin-in the same way as common salt, oxygen and water, which "can kill you if you get too much of them." But, he adds, "to absorb a lethal amount of fluoridated water would require drinking 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting ... To produce even the mildest symptoms of fluoride poisoning would require that the victim swallow two-and-a-half bathtubfuls . . . during a single...
Tick paralysis is caused by a venom that the female tick is believed to secrete only when producing eggs. It affects children more severely than adults. Myrna Tubby's tick proved to be Dermacentor variabilis, common in the southeastern U.S. (other areas have closely related species), and superabundant at this season. For parents removing ticks, doctors prescribe: gloves, tweezers, and extreme care to get the tick's head...
Died. Sholem Asch, 76, Polish-born Jewish writer of popular Biblical novels (The Nazarene, The Apostle, Mary); in London. An erudite man who always carried a pocket-sized Hebrew version of the Old Testament, Asch was saddened by Jew-Gentile divisions, stressed in his work the common roots of Judaism and Christianity ("For me, it is one culture and one civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among...