Word: flours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heyneman studies all the variations of tapeworm life, but most of his professional time goes to Hymenolepsis nana, the dwarf mouse tapeworm that infects between 1% and 2% of the population of U.S. Southern states. Its intermediate host is the flour beetle, which may be ground with grain and eaten by humans. It can also be carried to man by mouse droppings that get into the food. A person infected by H. nana soon develops immunity, ejects the established worms and does not acquire new ones for several years at least. Dr. Heyneman hopes to discover the mechanism of this...
...Harry Truman and Chief Justice Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Dewey. Golden has no room for news stories, pictures or headline type. Instead, he fills the 16-page paper with witty, erudite discourse on subjects ranging from Dr. Johnson's recipe for oysters (baked in a flour-and-water batter) to Cato's hangover cure (raw cabbage leaves...
...Lerici's new techniques have located 60 tombs, twelve of which were opened. They contained about 100 museum-worthy objects, including jars of a whitish powder believed to be 2,500-year-old flour. Most interesting find was a decorated vase, probably imported from Greece in the 7th century B.C. In the next three months Lerici intends to photograph the interiors of 300 more tombs and hopes to find at least 1,000 more museum pieces...
...with an iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because of the suspense with which we wait for fate to turn Hayyem's small successes into monstrous failures. His greatest early triumph, losing his virginity ("Without any kind of preliminaries, on top of a flour sack we got completely mixed up together"), produces two months later, a baby, for which he is convinced to pay "two month's salary for silence and one months salary for expenses...
...like a civilized man on the brink of going native. Instead of preparing Lalla for the reality of his life, he is becoming enamored of the unreality of hers. He can congratulate himself that "she had picked him blindfold, out of a hundred: rejected husband, melancholy salesman of flour and pigmeal, he was changed into a prince every Saturday afternoon...