Word: oral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEWITT: I have to churn this stuff out every week: forgive the stylistic lapses. That's all critics do anyway, spew cliches. Oral diarrhea. I try to keep my garbage lively, but that's all it is, garbage. I don't get paid. I'd rather be out strangling young women and hanging around playgrounds...
...encouraging news in the battle against acne. Dr Gary L. Peck and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute reported that they had successfully treated eight men and six women with severe acne, none of whom had responded to ordinary therapy. That feat was achieved with a new oral drug, 13-cis-retinoic acid, which is a synthetic version of all-trans-retinoic acid, a naturally occurring derivative of vitamin A. Applied to the skin, the natural acid has helped relieve common acne. But vitamin A, which is given orally, has been of little use. For severe acne...
...unknown African name-that drives Haley forward on his search for his forefather Kunta Kinte. What happened when Haley finally went to Africa has already passed into American legend, but the reenactment of the scene at the end of Roots 11 still has strong impact. When a tribal oral historian, a griot, confirms the Haley family account of Kinte's capture by white 18th century slave traders, Alex's joy is overwhelming. "You old African! I found you! I found you! I found you! I found you!" shouts out James Earl Jones, his voice bursting with sobs...
...Ames Competition culminates in an oral presentation of an original brief before a three-person panel...
...duration. The Mothers of Twins asked the Sheraton-Boston for free baby-sitting services, but the hotel found that request too taxing. Chicago's Lurye says he has bailed conventioneers out of jail, taken them to hospitals and, once, had to coax a convention employee to share her oral contraceptives. That latter mission came after Lurye spotted a man hanging over the balcony of an Acapulco hotel screaming, "Help! My wife ran out of birth control pills...