Word: erful
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...blisters has been known for at least 2,000 years. It is said to have caused so terrible an epidemic of lip sores in ancient Rome that the Emperor Tiberius banned kissing. Shakespeare also was familiar with the blight. In Romeo and Juliet, he speaks of blisters "o'er ladies' lips." In 18th century France, genital herpes was so common among prostitutes that it was termed "a vocational disease of women." Yet it was not until the 1940s that herpes was found to be a virus, and not until the late 1960s that researchers isolated two types of herpes...
With the summer recess only weeks away, three Democratic members of Congress from Connecticut got a jump on the opposition last week, with an old schoolyard activity, double dutch. (You know, when the two ropes are going in opposite directions.) Congressman William Ratchford, 48, tried his hand, er, feet, while colleagues Samuel Gejdenson, 34, and Barbara Kennedy, 46, waited their turns. "I could practice for the next 40 years and not be able to double jump," says Ratchford, who had difficulty with but one rope. It's safer inside the halls of Congress where the risks of getting tripped...
...Fill 'Er With the Unleaded...
...ER BB SO Tufts Bellerind (W 3.1) 7 4 0 0 3 2 Harvard Brown (L.0-3) 2 3 2 2 0 Sorich...
...ER BB SO Tufts Regan 6 9 5 2 1 1 Stevenson (L.I.1) 2/3 1 2 1 2 0 Cantaloopa 1/3 0 0 0 1 0 Harvard Curtin 3 2/3 5 3 2 3 3 Marchese (w.2-4) 3 2/3 2 2 2 1 1 Musselman...