Word: peelings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians peel and boil a starchy tapioca-type root. Their women then chew the root and spit it out to be fermented for about five days. It's pretty intoxicating when you keep at it for 12 or 14 hours as they do at the festivals...
...pair were "pinned." Sandra soon got bored with playing second fiddle to a big iron BB. Often when they went on a date, the shot went along in its little plaid bag. En route to dinner or dance, Parry usually managed to pass a convenient field. He would park, peel off his shirt and get off a few practice tosses-lest the evening wind up a total loss. Finally Sandra got fed up and sent Parry packing. In January 1955> transformed into an Air Force lieutenant, he came back and proposed...
Between them, Harl and Tulla drink about 21 cups of coffee a day: Harl, only three ("or I go through the ceiling"); Tulla, 18 ("I just love it!"). They have 20 kinds, ranging from "Angel's Bosom" (Cuban black coffee with lemon peel) to "Cafe del Diablo" (Java Semarang, blended with mint.) Harl says Boston is "just a hick town when it comes to coffee. None of the restaurant suppliers knew what an espresso machine was." Harl and Tulla also serve pastry, cheese, and sandwiches...
...position to challenge Eden for the leadership, knows that he would lose if he did. Said one Conservative old hand: "You must understand how strong is the spirit of unity among Conservative leaders. We remember how much damage has been done by splits in our leadership-Fox and Pitt, Peel and Disraeli. The only reasonable way for Butler to express such differences as he may have with Eden is within the party, within the government. That way, he may have some influence and only that way. Why should Butler do anything else? He has time...
...outfit calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children's tooth decay 60%, with no ill effects...