Word: livers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fish that has been allowed to rot for as long as six months. They also eat tarantulas drenched with fermented fish juice, bamboo shoots marinated in buffalo blood, ant eggs, fried bee larvae and tree lizards in chili sauce. These dishes are tasty, but they also contain liver flukes, hookworms and other parasites; as a result, fully 90% of all northeasterners suffer from one or an other debilitating disease. Government teams dose whole villages with worming medicines, distribute pamphlets saying, "Please eat hot food," but it will be generations before the northeasterners change their diets completely...
...Trashmen. The Kinks. Goldie and the Gingerbreads. The Ripchords. Bent Fabric. Reparata and the Delrons. Barry and the Remains. The Pretty Things. The Emotions. The Detergents. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The Guess Who's. Cannibal and the Headhunters. Them. The Orlons. The Liver-birds. Wump and the Werbles. Like something out of Malice in Wonderland, the hordes of shaggy rock 'n' roll singers thump across the land, whanging their electric guitars. Bizarre as they may be, they are the anointed purveyors of the big beat and, as never before, people are listening?all kinds of people...
...wild. He once delivered a speech that lasted six days. He stayed up all night, every night, carousing with his cronies. He adopted orphan girls and used them as nymphets. His memory began to fail, his judgment began to go. In 1937 he came down with cirrhosis of the liver, and in 1938 he died. The republic survived, and in it Atatürk's achievement, raddled at times by reaction, still stands: a moderately modern and reasonably democratic Turkey that through two world struggles has held staunchly with the free world against totalitarian tyranny...
...Communists, introduced the 1949 Taiwan land reform that made 90% of the farmers masters of the land they worked, and until his own ill health and the rising fortunes of Chiang's son reduced his power, was regarded as the Generalissimo's heir presumptive; of liver cancer; in Taipei...
...years, shares credit with the late Chancellor Julius Raab for Austria's economic recovery and the 1955 departure of Russian occupation troops, later, as President, quelled a series of rebellions within his Socialist party, thus keeping alive the government's 19-year-old Socialist-Conservative coalition; of liver cancer; in Vienna...