Word: ointments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince, rub an old battle scar on his forehead and say: "My head hurts." Then he usually takes some pills, and a bodyguard treats his shoulder with Vicks ointment...
...first, the Brighton doctors report in the British Medical Journal, they tried hourly swabbing of cold sores with an IDU solution. Then they cut out the nighttime swabs to let the patients sleep. Finally the doctors switched to an ointment that was applied only four times a day. The results were equally good by all methods. The patients' recurrent cold sores had previously taken seven to 21 days to heal; now they cleared up in two to five days. Since anybody infected with herpes simplex usually carries the virus for life, though infection erupts only at intervals, the next...
...genius for letter writing aside, the son was a familiar type of cultivated societies-the fussy, dilettantish, delicately feline bachelor, a connoisseur of wit and, even more, of social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built...
...inevitably as fallout follows the bomb, so have come profiteers, pitchmen, manufacturers of products that prove ineffective. "Lifesaving kits" contain a salve supposed to cause radiation to ricochet harmlessly off the body; in fact, no salve, ointment or grease has the slightest value as a fallout protector (neither does any of several brands of "antiradiation pills"). Jerry-built shelters bear the slogan "CD-approved" or other meaningless legends; actually, the OCDM approved nothing, merely set the standard for shelters. A widely advertised "fallout suit," selling at the rate of 500 a week for $21.95 each, actually provides no more protection...
Tuesday, March 1, 1932, was raw and windy in central New Jersey. The baby in the still incomplete new house at Hopewell had caught the sniffles, and Nurse Betty Gow was careful to rub Vicks ointment on his chest before she put him to bed at 8. Two hours later, she tiptoed into the nursery to look in on her sleeping charge. But even before the light was snapped on, she sensed that the crib was empty...