Word: laids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dung & Skull Juice. "To drain off his blood they put cupping glasses to his shoulders, scarified his flesh and tapped his veins. Then they cut off his hair and laid blisters on the scalp, and on the soles of his feet they applied plasters of pitch and pigeon dung. To remove the humors from his brain they blew hellebores up his nostrils and set him sneezing. To make him sick they poured antimony and sulphate of zinc down his throat. To clear his bowels they gave him strong purgatives and a brisk succession of clysters. To allay his convulsions they...
...pilots' union that the engineer on pure jets should be a trained pilot also. It is willing to give its engineers pilot training at company expense, but the engineers say this is no help; as pilots, they will be at the bottom of seniority lists, will be laid off if the line starts reducing its crews because of the greater carrying capacity of the jets. Says Princeton-educated engineer President George Petty Jr., 28, whose relatively small (3,500 members) union has an offer of a $1,000,000 strike loan from the powerful Teamsters union: "The pilots...
Back in Hollywood, most of the crowd had left before Linda Christian and Ty's two daughters, Romina, 7, and Taryn, 5, laid a 5-ft. cross of white gardenias on the grave-which was all right with Debbie. "Ty belongs to me now," said Debbie. "Whatever anybody else does is of no concern to me any more." Said Linda, "I am happy for her if she can find peace in that belief...
...shot), even does some weight lifting, can press 260 Ibs., dead-lift 450. Says Track and Field News: "He's either the fastest shotputter or the strongest sprinter in track annals." Says the legendary Sammy Baugh: "Well, he's as great as any back I ever laid eyes...
...stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke of his own death as coinciding with Marian's. Author Samuels believes that Adams oversentimentalized his tragedy, but points out that extravagant mourning was a 19th century fashion-Queen Victoria had the dead Albert's evening clothes laid out daily before dinner; the poet Rossetti buried all his unpublished manuscripts with his wife's body...