Word: kaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kay Cataldo, a Los Angeles housewife, was so concerned about her father that she stopped by his house several times a week and refused to go away on weekends. The elderly man, who lived alone, was frail and subject to falls; on several occasions, he had collapsed and had been unable to get to his telephone for help...
...gold standard, then Presidential Candidate William McKinley. The name stuck and gradually worked its way into maps and books. Now there is virtually no resistance in the state to the proposed name change. Few Alaskans feel that the long-dead President deserves the honor. Says Anchorage Daily News Publisher Kay Fanning: "McKinley never got near...
Perhaps the ugliest tale Kyemba offers concerns Amin's own family. In March 1974 the dictator suddenly divorced three of his four wives; the three, says Kyemba, had been unfaithful, as Amin found out. Five months later, the dismembered body of one of the former wives, Kay, was found in Kampala. For once, Kyemba exonerates Amin: "I do not believe, as I first did, that Amin had a direct hand in Kay's death." Instead, he writes, she died during an abortion that was being performed by her lover, a doctor. Kyemba speculates that the doctor dismembered...
...rushed through the audience, raised his arm and-splat! Prankster Aaron Kay, the man who once pasted Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the face with a cream pie, had struck again. This time the pie was apple crumb and the victim was New York City Mayor Abe Beame, who was participating in a mayoral forum at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Fortunately for Beame, the pie merely splattered his blue suit. The mayor shrugged off the caper with a quip: "I like the Big Apple, not apple...
Dietary fiber, said Dr. Ruth M. Kay of the University of Toronto, consists of those parts of edible plants that are resistant to the human digestive enzymes, so that they pass through the system virtually unchanged until they encounter bacteria in the large bowel. There are three basic kinds of fiber. The simplest is cellulose; the four-chambered stomach of cattle can readily digest this form, but the single human stomach cannot. Next comes a group of polysaccharides, consisting of complex sugar chains. The third type is lignin, which not even intestinal bacteria can degrade. Fiber of any kind provides...