Word: nostrums
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...many years the Indians and early settlers of the American Southwest treasured the oil they pressed from the beans of the wild jojoba shrub. In Arizona and California the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) oil was used as a nostrum for almost every ill: to ease childbirth, as a remedy for cancer, even as a laxative. Spanish colonists liked to rub the waxy, colorless oil on their mustaches. Last week a panel of National Research Council scientists reported that the jojoba bean may also be a panacea for the endangered sperm whale...
Midway through the third and final set, Bobby Riggs shuffled to the sidelines complaining of cramps in his playing hand. As Rheo Blair, nutrition adviser of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show, massaged his falling prince's hand, some anonymous TV director captioned the scene-and the entire evening-with commendable brevity. Floating across the screen came the words BOBBY RIGGS 55 YEARS...
...circus trappings of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show-the chairs on the court, the pails of water, the poodles, the vitamin pills, the Hai Karate aftershave-have been gathered, and the carnival tents have been struck by Billie Jean King's rampaging racket...
...writing without a license. Like EYAWTKAS, his latest effort is an ask-the-answerman approach to sex education and social adjustment. Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the first book provided a lot more incontestable information. Any Woman Can! makes sense mostly as an overpriced, over-the-counter nostrum marketed to exploit whatever Women's Lib awareness has spread to the nation's largest day-to-day purchasing-power bloc-white, middleclass, heterosexual females...
...Government has unwisely, though presumably with good intentions, assumed control over economic matters best left to work themselves out. Good sense falls victim to expediency, charlatanry and paternalism-which is nothing new, but which should temper enthusiasm for this latest nostrum as time passes...