Word: nutmeg
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...Dirksen was in his most Vesuvian oratorical humor. Dodd's criticisms, he cried, amounted to "incoherencies." Noting that Dodd had not yet arrived on the floor, Dirksen said that "the brave crusader from the Nutmeg State on his white charger has great zeal for being here and getting on with business, and he is not here...
...President," he cried, "I would be the last Senator ever to use the Senate chamber for a glorified wailing wall." It so happens, said Dirksen, that he and many others have a lot of chores to keep them busy. But "it may be that the distinguished Senator from the Nutmeg State does not have anything to do in his office." And if Dodd wanted an answer to his complaint about Senate inaction, Dirksen shouted, "I will answer the distinguished Senator from Connecticut, and he will know well that he will have been answered when I am through...
...Robert B. Payne reports, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a sick story about nutmeg. Two students at the University of North Carolina heard from a beatnik friend that it would give them a jag like a combination of the effects of alcohol and LSD or mescaline. The two lads each took two tablespoonfuls, the powder equivalent of two grated nutmegs, in a glass of milk. Within five hours they had a leaden feeling in their feet and legs, and an airy, dreamlike sensation in their heads. Their hearts were beating in double time. They were...
...make an athlete. ''Frank was just like a scrawny chicken," she says. "He was always getting awful colds. I tried everything. I massaged his legs with triple-distilled alcohol, triple-distilled witch hazel and imported Italian olive oil. I mixed up goose grease, mutton suet, nutmeg and camphorated oil, and rubbed it on his chest." Well-marinated by the time he got to high school, Budd captained his basketball team, played halfback in football, even then ran the 100 in 9.6 sec. When it came time for college, he had his choice of scholarships for football (Princeton, Navy...
...President Kennedy endorsing milk [Feb. 2]-modern research has established conclusively that milk, when taken internally by adults, is lethal. The only way it can be safely ingested and endured is mixed with a strong dose of brandy, a little sugar and nutmeg. Warming the milk first helps banish the taste and dim the memory...