Word: gout
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...them were already laden with bombs; the fourth, a tanker, carried 900 gal. of JB5 jet fuel. The fire fighters watched in helpless horror as the steel bulkheads of the flare locker started ballooning under the 7,000° heat inside. The steel hatch blasted open with a great gout of flame that engulfed the hangar and sent fire balls rocketing down every passageway, igniting two helicopters. Five sailors were burned alive...
...Frenchmen who may not like the carbonated Perrier or the somewhat sulphuric Vichy, there is still Evian (454 million bottles) or Vittel (335 million) to irrigate their kidneys, soothe their livers, relieve their gout and perform all the other cures ascribed in France to mineral water. And if they remain thirsty, there is always wine, which still outsells mineral water 3 to 1 in France...
Spaak's dream of a true European community has not come true. But Mr. Europe has not given up hope yet. He plans to leave Belgium and install himself on the Côte d'Azur, where he can pamper his painful gout and at the same time finish his memoirs. "Luxury, today, is solitude and silence," he said last week. To which the Brussels news paper La Libre Belgique had a typically Spaakian reply. "Solitude, maybe," said the paper. "But silence? We doubt...
...Good Gout...
Thank you for a story that did much to improve the gout sufferer's image [Feb. 18]. My husband's gout attack was met by others with a "ho, ho, ho" attitude and the usual remark, "That's the disease of the boozers and the high living." Now he ought to command a little respect with that painful...