Word: livered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liver that chops itself and spreads itself on Ritz crackers; paramecia smart enough to make collect phone calls; Girl Scout cookies made out of Girl Scouts...
Recombinant franks and beans...spinach that did a socko comic monologue before I swallowed it...spaghetti that twirled itself around my fork like a whirling dervish...And that chopped liver...
...like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved problems of substance more than niceties of style. An important, long chapter of British history closed last week when Robert Anthony Eden, the first Lord Avon, died at age 79 of liver failure at his manor house in Alvediston, Wiltshire...
...Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It quickens in response to our emotions. And all the while we feel it, hear it, even - we, its stage and its audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks." The author is as wry and bemused when he describes bones, the digestive tract or a kidney stone...
...last them for the next seven days. The purpose of the supplement (which comes in three flavors and supplies 300 calories a day) is not to provide nutrition but to encourage the body to burn off unnecessary fat rather than necessary protein. Otherwise the fasting might damage the heart, liver, muscles and brain...