Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other tips: beware the dentist who keeps people waiting for hours, fails to ask for a complete medical-dental history during the first visit, works without assistants, does not take X rays, wants to extract without suggesting alternatives for saving a tooth, does not use disposable needles to administer local anesthetics, charges unusually high or low fees, never explains his fees or procedures. If a dentist commits several of these violations, Denholtz recommends that patients should consider going elsewhere...
...TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant extract used by South American Indians to tip their poison arrows...
...malignancy. But last week, presiding over a crowded, acrimonious Senate subcommittee hearing on Laetrile, Kennedy showed little patience with supporters of the alleged anti-cancer drug. Facing four of Laetrile's leading advocates-three of whom have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle and distribute the apricot-pit extract into the U.S.-Kennedy asked each in turn whether he would "stop, halt and cease raising false hopes" if an objective test found Laetrile worthless. All four agreed. But before the session ended, it was clear that no Government-sponsored trial would appease Laetrile's fanatic supporters or settle...
COCAINE. Though exact figures are hard to pin down, more and more people apparently are getting a kick out of this extract of the South American coca leaf. Long known as the "society high." cocaine is now being used by everyone from affluent suburbanites to drug-savvy ghetto kids. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that almost 8 million Americans have tried cocaine at least once, usually by sniffing it in a powdery form ("snorting"). Cocaine's proponents, who included Freud, swear by the drug, insisting that it produces a sense of euphoria, increases sexual sensations, reduces fatigue...
Scott does not take sides, extract an anticolonial moral from his story or strain after tragic overtones. Such gestures would have shattered a work set so carefully in a minor key. But no one now writing knows or can evoke an Anglo-Indian setting better than Scott...