Word: livers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pfizer Company has produced a product called Sure-Curd that is made from the parasitic fungus Endothia parasitica, a crystalline enzyme that . . . cuts in half the maturation time for Cheddar cheese." Moreover, the book's glossary of labels for meatless-dieters is as discouraging as mock chopped liver: "ovo-lactarians" supplement their plant food with eggs and milk; "granivores" eat only seeds and grains; "fruitarians" consume only fruits; "vegans" refrain from utilizing any animal product whatever...
...advertising executive who created, among other shrewdly promoted schemes, the Beethoven sweatshirt and the International Paper Airplane Competition. He died of leukemia in 1969. Eben and Amy had a half sister, June, who was killed in an automobile crash, and their mother died last May of cirrhosis of the liver...
Come Saturday morning the staging area behind the old railroad depot was full of yapping dogs and eager drivers, who made last-minute adjustments to their birchwood sleds, dosed their teams with cod-liver oil, and administered suppositories so that the dogs would excrete before and not during the race. As the town's lone vet scurried about treating sore legs and nervous stomachs, sheriffs deputies shooed away an occasional stray Dalmation or schnauzer...
Although the final screen credits promise that Bond will return in The Spy Who Loved Me, it is time to retire him. He should be packed off to a sanitarium, where he can give his liver a rest and wait in leisure for his moment to come again. Right now, Bond has been around too long to be fresh, but not long enough to qualify as a genuine antique...
...rugby team is forced to cancel the remainder of its schedule after half its starters come down with cirrhosis of the liver. The Harvard-Yale football game ends in a boring 0-0 tie. At a hastily called press conference afterwards, Bok announces that "they're right--Harvard does such," and lays off hockey coach Billy Cleary '56, "just to shake things...