Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lowest marks for any legislator from the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action. At the same time his strong opposition to key White House proposals?the ABM, the SST, the Carswell and Haynsworth Supreme Court nominations?has won him the Administration's unfailing hostility. Nixon's Director of Communications, Herb Klein, accuses him of "childish tantrums, demagoguery at its worst...
...lore of lefthanders is filled with tales of young fireballers like the Dodgers' Karl Spooner or Cleveland's Herb Score who, through injury or accident, ended their careers in one quick flameout. "Vida's one of those kids who come along once in a lifetime," says Posedel. "He throws awful hard, and the only thing you don't know is if his arm is ready for it." Says A's Manager Dick Williams: "I'd like to keep him in a glass case between starts...
...them "to stimulate the intestine." Reported Reston: "That sent ripples of pain racing through my limbs and at least had the effect of diverting my attention from the distress in my stomach." Next, the doctor resorted to another traditional Chinese treatment called moxibustion: he lit two pieces of an herb called ai or ngai (Artemisia vulgaris, or wormwood) and held the smoldering wads near Reston's abdomen. Reston soon felt better, but could not attempt to explain...
...canceling reservations to make room for the delegates. Taxpayers, who voted down nine bond proposals last June, see the cost of police protection and city services during the convention as an unnecessary revenue drain. Support for the convention was rallied by the San Diego Union-Administration Communications Director Herb Klein was once a Union editorial writer-but opposition was strong. Said one county official: "Everybody in San Diego wants the convention except the people." President Nixon's favor has even caused a rift within the local G.O.P. A Republican county committeewoman threatened to seek a court injunction against...
...familiar one. In A Thousand Clowns, Scenarist Herb Gardner created Murray Burns, the same avian specimen ostentatiously hiding his self-pity in a cloak of jokes. Georgie is a blurred replica of Murray, surrounded by the same narcissistic suffering and arriving at the same lame insights: "Time is not a thief; he's an embezzler, juggling the books at night so you don't notice anything's missing...