Word: ingestion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hearst declared that Bailey's own interests interfered with his work in court. She also "noticed during my trial that it was necessary for him [Bailey] to ingest what I consider 'hangover' medicine," that his "hands were shaking, that he seemed to be suffering from the effects of insomnia, that his judgment seemed impaired...
...site is a giant feed lot in central Florida where 20,000 cattle at a time are fattened. Their droppings will be placed into fermenter tanks filled with thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. As the bacteria ingest the manure at a temperature of 120°, they give off a gas that is 65% methane. Donald D. Kaplan, owner of the feed lot, says that the project is expected to provide enough fuel for all his own operations, which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow...
Americans alone ingest more than 50 million tablets of aspirin nature a day. In addition, aspirin, known chemically as acetylsalicylic acid, is the primary ingredient-and often the only active one-in nearly 50,000 over-the-counter (nonprescription) drugs now available in the U.S. Unlike many other drugs, aspirin is so mild that most people can take it for years in proper doses without suffering any serious problems or developing resistance to it. Even more remarkable, doctors seem to be finding promising new uses for the trusty old remedy-for example, as a possible preventive for heart attacks...
...criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York Times agrees, and California Governor Jerry Brown believes that people should be allowed to ingest anything that has not been proved to be harmful...
...SPENT ANOTHER DAY in the valley, taking walks to look at the animals and the crops and trying to ingest as much of the tranquility as my cells would absorb. I thought briefly about re-inviting myself there for part of a summer. Perhaps someday I will. But right now I know I would tire of the timeless hills and mountain brooks and would eventually wring the neck of a rooster that woke me on a sleepy Sunday. Summer camping never managed to accustom me to outhouses; I will never adjust to life without steaming baths. But when we drove...