Word: know
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk...
...convinced," concludes Serrano, "that ixbut increases milk flow. By analysis, I know that this increment is actually milk and not water, as I originally suspected. We must still isolate the agent that causes the increase [a project which Merck & Co. will work on] and learn how it works." Serrano could rule out the milk-producing hormone prolactin: it did not enable his wife to nurse her four babies. But ixbut...
...fire has broken out.) Pain does not even give protection against mosquito bites, he argues, because it is felt only after the mosquito "has sucked your blood and perhaps infected you with malaria." Soresi does not mention the fact that after one or two mosquito bites, most people know enough to head for a screened porch...
Five minutes later, on his way to the death cell, the killer paused to chide his pretty, 21-year-old sweetheart, Barbara Stephens. What business did she have selling a story of their friendship to the Sunday newspaper, The People? Didn't she know that he had already sold exclusive rights to his own story ("I Was a Vampire") to News of the World? Killer Haigh, who had signed the ?5,000 ($20,000) contract months ago to get the money for his defense, felt honor-bound to fulfill...
...model for his CBS staff, Meighan cites Arthur Godfrey as typifying "the magic approach that has the brightness that comes with freshness and sincerity. People trust him, know he wouldn't pull anything on them." It is inaccurate to accuse Godfrey of kidding his sponsors: "He is, in fact, enthusiastic about them...