Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some extremely dangerous drugs have been promoted for reducing, said Dr. Stormont. Thyroid extract, still popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...
Guiness himself is superb as a wide-eyed young chemist who discovers an extraordinary fabric which can never spot and never wear out. Always slightly underplaying his role, he manages to extract every bit of humor from an essentially unfunny situation...
Shortly after Mankiewicz met Cicero, I turned up strong circumstantial evidence that Bazna, last July, was attempting to extract money from Soviet agents-including the chief of the MVD in Turkey. I informed the Turkish Sūretė, which trailed Bazna, arrested him and held him for . . . interrogations . . . He was released for want of documentary proof of his current espionage activities...
Standard procedure of the investigating committee, according to Fairbank, is to extract from the IPR files letters of the accused which seem to suggest "ulterior motives...
...taxpayer's shoulders rest the defense of the free world, the salaries of 2,500,000 U.S. Government employees, the care of Eskimos, and the spaghetti supply of Naples. The American taxpayer is the latest product of aeons of human progress. From his forefathers, despots were able to extract, under club or sword or torture, a livre here and a bushel of turnips there. But every dime the American taxpayer gives up has been voted out of him by his duly elected representatives...