Word: mustards
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Despite the familiar French gibe that Britain is a country with 60 religions and only two sauces, Garmey names several that are unique and pleasant. One of them, made of meat stock, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and mustard, is called, appropriately...
...desk. But even with the opportunity to enlarge our concept of this human monument, Angelou fails to present Dr. King in more than a bizarre cameo: "Looking at him, in my office, alone, was like seeing a lion sitting down at my dining room table eating a plate of mustard greens." Somehow the lion strength of the man related to his down-to-earth appearance in such a description does not expand our portrait of Dr. King. Angelou writes even worse sentences when she describes meeting, with relief, a Black American man during her long stay in Egypt...
...Journal also contained an encouraging report about the effectiveness of chemotherapy after mastectomies. A study of 1,863 women whose cancer had spread beyond the breast revealed that recurrence rates dropped when a chemical called tamoxifen supplemented an established two-drug regimen known as PF (L-phenylalanine mustard and 5-fluorouracil). The effects were most striking in postmenopausal women, a group that in the past did not seem to benefit from chemotherapy. Says the study chairman, Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh: "In women over 50 years old with multiple lymph node involvement, 45% will have a reoccurrence...
Civil libertarians and ERA proponents were bitterly disappointed. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "It perpetuates the myth that we can't cut the mustard, when we know that we can." She and others maintain that many men refuse to back the ERA and other guarantees of equality on the ground that since women do not bear certain burdens, like the draft, they are not entitled to all of society's benefits. Most scholars, however, do not view the decision as a major high-court retreat on sex discrimination. Says University of Virginia...
...says, "very few superstars in Movieland could cut that kind of mustard...