Word: far
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical complaints." In modern smooth diets, often deficient in fruits and vegetables, most food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen, is to get more bulk into the colon. Thus far, the job has been done awkwardly by sprinkling agar-agar, kelp and psyllium seeds on breakfast foods...
...called up redheaded Walker Stone, 45-year-old boss of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Washington bureau, gave him his assignment and told him: "Build a fire. Stir up the animals." Stone set Reporter Andrew Tully to prowling the corridors of the State Department, assigned Oland D. Russell, his Far Eastern expert, to dig up other angles, briefed Editorial Writer Parker La Moore on the campaign ahead. Cartoonist Harold Talburt sharpened his Pulitzer-Prizewinning pencil...
...Tangier in 1904 to rescue a U.S. citizen named Ion Perdicaris (who had been kidnaped by a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli), La Moore quoted T.R.'s famed ultimatum to the Bey of Tangier: "Perdicaris alive-or Raisuli dead."*Lashing out at the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs for its "notorious . . . pro-Communist sympathies," Scripps-Howard in another blast cried: "Writing polite little notes has produced no results. Action is needed. A U.S. naval blockade of [Chinese] ports would bring the Communists to terms...
...fair trial of the Kestin suit. Headlong, Judge Horrigan promptly forbade the Herald to publish any more stories on the houses, forced it to yank the fourth article a half hour before press time. Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped a $100,000 libel suit against the Herald. Unperturbed, Publisher Lee said: "We'll keep on printing the news...
...Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...