Word: nitroglycerin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some gynecologists blame blocked Fallopian tubes (which carry eggs from the ovary to the uterus) for infertility in 26% to 50% of their cases. Not so, says Dr. Stallworthy. He found "apparent blockage" in 21.6%, but reduced that to 12.8% by such antispasmodic (relaxing) drugs as nitroglycerin, later lowered the rate to 9% in a smaller series of cases. Some of the blocking reported by other doctors is due, he thinks, to temporary spasms caused by their own instruments. Spasms caused by emotions may cause blocking in other cases. He suggests: "Is it not probable that a woman may deprive...
...while any negotiations involving Petrillo were always as unstable as nitroglycerin, neither side seemed to yearn for a showdown battle. For all their public outcry against him, the big men of the music industry respected, and in some cases, admired, Caesar Petrillo. He was honest, and until his mind was set, he was always open to persuasion. His word was as good as gold...
That night the lid blew off. As Harry Truman slept five blocks away in his Hotel Muehlebach suite, thieves entered the Jackson County courthouse in downtown Kansas City. They blasted open the election board's vault with nitroglycerin, stole most of the grand jury's evidence: ballots, poll books and tally sheets. Cried Missouri's Republican state chairman: "The Pendergast machine under the protection of Harry S. Truman is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Harry Truman's mentor, Tom Pendergast...
...Roof Rose. All went well until 9:45 one morning last week. Then the mixture blew up like a bathtub full of nitroglycerin...
...most of them from the grim little streets of the Belfast slums. In the towns they found black flags of defiance dangling from lampposts. In the country they found two arms dumps. They killed a sentry in an Antrim County barnyard, discovered he was guarding ten beer kegs of nitroglycerin, 60 revolvers, eight rifles, seven tommy guns, 7,000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades and tear gas. At a neighboring farm they found a second cache...