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Word: epsom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his two elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son's cot into the kitchen of their home in Epsom, 14 miles west of London. Dipping his finger in tap water, Johnson made the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead and baptized him David Ernest James. Then Johnson took a flexible gas pipe, put it on the baby's pillow and turned on the gas. When he returned to the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quality of Mercy | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...Balkan politics. Eventually, the U.N. (accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts in the Russian sector is really cobalt. "D you realize," says CB, ''we could absolutely blow up the entire world? Smashing." The muddling has just begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Clear Solution. In Memphis, James Neal was freed from a drunk charge after, he told the court that he was merely trying to cure a gallstone attack with a remedy compounded of beer, Epsom salts, vinegar, water, gin and laundry bluing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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