Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure how much nicotine cuts down circulation in the hands and feet, Dr. Morris T. Friedell of Chicago's Cook County Hospital made 100 volunteers slightly radioactive and put a radiation counter at their fingertips. Of the 79 who had a reaction after smoking a test cigarette, the women showed almost twice as great a change in fingertip blood flow as the men. But, surprisingly, some of the women showed increased blood flow. Dr. Friedell's conclusions: filtering cigarettes is a good idea, and women need the filtering more than...
Tonga, England soon learned, is an archipelago of probably 200 islands about 1,400 miles south of the equator. Captain Cook called there in 1773, named them the Friendly Islands, and presented the Tongans with a tortoise, which is still alive. Methodist missionaries arrived in 1822 and converted the king to Christianity. Queen Salote's father voluntarily accepted British protection in 1900. Tonga is the only remaining independent monarchy in the Pacific. It has its own parliament, cabinet, privy council, passports, stamps, currency, laws and language, and is the only self-governing kingdom within the British Commonwealth...
...York, the toothless old Tammany tiger still lies dazed and listless, and Democrats are wondering where their next candidates for governor and U.S. Senator are coming from. In Illinois, National Committeeman Jack Arvey has virtually retired from the day-to-day problems of party management, and the once-great Cook County organization is dozing under the hand of an apathetic municipal court clerk named Joe Gill. In California, only one Democrat (Attorney General Edmund G. Brown) holds any position of importance in the state, and some of the party's wealthiest angels are snapping shut their checkbooks. California...
...name given her as a baby by her family's cook, who said: "Lawd, she's as purty as a little lady-bird." -The election produced a favorite political story in Texas which tells about a Mexican-American who found his friend Paco sitting on a curbstone, weeping: Friend: What troubles thee, Paco? Paco: My old father was here Saturday, and he did not come...
Sportsmanship. In El Paso, Army Cook Perry Carlyle, arrested on a charge of selling 21 Ibs. of marijuana to a Government undercover agent, protested: "Those guys don't play fair...