Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jets, ignited and enveloped Jean in fire. Chortling make-believe satisfaction a moment before, the film extras now screamed in dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like a singed chicken. At first, I didn't know what was happening. Then I felt myself going pffft...
...Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases reported the first substantial breakthrough on the radiation-damage front. Noting that patients with overactive thyroids seemed to suffer less radiation injury, they tried a synthetic thyroid hormone product, triiodothyronine. Of 26 patients who got the "T3" in an ointment within two to four weeks after damaging radiation, 22 showed a good to excellent response; in two it was only fair, and two had to give up because of allergic reactions. All 26 reported immediate relief of pain...
...ointment in the rain-stopping business is that other people on whose land the rain falls may bring law suits against the rainmaker. Howell pointed out that these over-seeded clouds do at times result in heavy rains which can cause damage to crops...
...ancients believed, says Dr. Philip, that mashed ticks were a useful aphrodisiac, and Pliny the Elder recommended tick blood as a depilatory and as a curative ointment. There may be something to this. Recent tick-workers have shown that ticks contain an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of many bacteria...
...language. "As long as we are in this thing," he said with a grin, "let's stick in it together and throw the stove lid at anything that gets in our way!" "I don't," he told men & women from Oklahoma, "make promises that a bottle of ointment will cure you of everything from poverty to flat feet...