Word: gros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLES G. GROS Panama City...
...liver quadrupled from 1947 to 1950, tripled again by 1956. The peak total that year: 20,279 deaths from alcoholism, 14-176 of them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis, and may not lead to it at all if the rest of the diet is properly balanced. But the cause-and-effect relationship in France is so clear and so common that he calls cirrhosis of the liver la maladie...
...spirit not completely commercial, with authenticity. The whole picture-except perhaps for the Hollywood ending-carries a strong conviction to the moviegoer that what he is seeing is really happening; and the conviction is strongest when the camera is watching Jean Gabin, who is just right as un gros legume-a big vegetable...
Died. Adlai Stevenson, 92 (born Bear-in-the-Water), a chief since 1895 of the Gros Ventres Indians, who adopted the name of President Grover Cleveland's second Vice President (and grandfather of last year's Democratic presidential candidate) when he became a government scout; in Stanley...
...Ansiau, knight and onetime Crusader, sets out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, becomes blind on the way, is captured in the Holy Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...