Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Premier's grandchildren. Ferial is a chestnut-haired beauty with brownish-green eyes, a slender waist and notable bosom. Though he already has four wives* and upwards of 80 concubines, Saud, according to a witness, was "visibly staggered." Soon Ferial's father was approached to find out if she was available for marriage. When the King flew back to Saudi Arabia a few days later, he took along pictures of Ferial to show to his mother, whom he likes to consult in such matters...
Poison to Relax. This done, Bovet switched to the mechanism by which curare paralyzes the muscles. It took him eight years to find the essential ingredients in the impure mixtures of Indian arrow poisons: along the way he synthesized 400 compounds which produced some of curare's effects in one degree or another. His research brought out the usefulness of succinylcholine. a long-neglected curare-like compound now widely employed as a muscle relaxant in major surgery on the chest and abdomen...
...nasal, unintelligible sound, this irritating sameness of lyrics, this lamentable croak. They've picked a sound all their own, apart from anything the adults like. Rock 'n' roll is still as strong as ever, and we'll have to live with it until the kids find a new sound...
...teams make a habit of playing their college football at home. (Last season all eleven Abilene lettermen who earned football scholarships went to Texas colleges.) From the muscle foundry at Texas A. & M. to the modest athletic plant at Hardin-Simmons, Texas has more than enough football factories to find a place for its high school talents...
...know their way around yet. I think it's the goddam system of women schoolteachers.' I told him that I wanted to write, and he snarled, 'Writers are a dime a dozen, Thurber. What I want is an editor. I can't find editors. Nobody grows up. Do you know English?' I said I thought I knew English. 'Everybody thinks he knows English,' he said, 'but nobody does. I think it's because of the goddam women shoolteachers...