Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boiled down to a very few words based on the discovery that colds are transmitted person to person, most often by hand. The best, still imperfect cold avoidance program thus consists of washing the hands frequently when colds are about and keeping the hands away from the nose and eyes. The state of the art of curing the cold is simpler still: there is no cure. The adage holds: with proper treatment a cold can be ended in seven days, but otherwise it lasts a week...
...provide proof of the claim. Some folk remedies out of folklore (rub socks with onions, coat body with Vaseline) are hard to consider with a straight face, and a great many others irresistibly bring to mind Robert Benchley's personal anticold regimen: "Don't breathe through your nose or mouth...
Whatever the case may be, the action tomorrow will be closely contested. But the picks here are Quincy and Kirkland by a nose...
...Charles K. Stevens, a notorious criminal, to go free. Some 300 people rallied downtown in protest. The judge responded with a 20-page report explaining his action, but the city's most popular disc jockey told his audience: "Shintaku can take that report and shove it up his-nose." Then came news that Judge Shintaku had been found by relatives battered and dazed at his beachfront cottage. After doctors performed brain surgery for three hours and tended to Shintaku's broken collarbone, they predicted that he would be sidelined for a year...
...glad everyone thinks Owner George Steinbrenner calls all the shots. With two on but also two out in the fourth inning, Lemon pulled Starting Pitcher Tommy John from a 1 -1 game for Pinch Hitter Bobby Murcer. "I just wanted some runs," sighed Lemon, the bulb of his nose dimming out the way a third of the Yankee Stadium lights had for 9 min. in the third inning. Murcer flied out, and Reliever George Frazier came on. "Also, I thought Frazier's luck was due to change...