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...continual shifts of Ministers in the Fourth Republic's Cabinets by saying, "Chose, machin, chouette [thingamabob, thingamajig, whosit] are being replaced by chouette, machin, chose." He often referred to members of the National Assembly as pisse froid or pisse vinaigre. In private, he often called France "vacharde"-inert or uninspired. The fact was that France offered De Gaulle too limited a scope and power base. Try as he might, he could not change the basic reality that France simply lacked the specific gravity to offset the force of a superpower...
...avoid confusion with naturally occurring rubella infections, Veronelli conducted his study in early winter, when there would be little or no natural rubella in the community. Before vaccinating the children, he tested their mothers' blood, found 62 women susceptible to rubella. To their children he gave only inert, placebo injections, rather than risk indirectly infecting a vulnerable woman who might be pregnant without yet knowing...
...calcium in bones is not an inert, permanent part of their structure, like steel beams in a building. Rather, it is continuously being removed and replaced by the body's normal metabolic processes. So osteoporosis can result from too much calcium being removed too fast, too little being replaced too slowly, or both...
Warts Cured. Hypnosis allegedly cures warts. So does suggestion. Barber reports that the wart count among some New York schoolchildren fell dramatically after their warts were painted with chemically inert dyes identified as effective medication. Barber also discounts feats of strength under hypnosis, such as the ability of a man to make his body so rigid that he can be stretched like a plank between two chairs. "Practically all normally awake persons can remain suspended between two chairs while supported only by the head and ankles," Barber says...
...emotion that cries for more of everything. In Munster, 111., for example, Mrs. Mary Lou Kieswetter heads Project 41, a plan to have "Old Glory flown in front of every home and place of business along U.S. Highway 41 from Upper Michigan to Miami, Fla." Says Mrs. Kieswetter: "The inert majority have got off their duffs and begun to protest in a beautiful, constructive...