Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cells that will grow into a baby. If the sperm contains an X chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains a Y chromosome, the baby gets that plus an X from the mother; the potent male Y overpowers the single X, and it's a boy -normally...
Violent death and women have long been an explosive mixture in mystery novels. Their effect on a court of law is often no less potent. Three recent cases...
University of Chicago Psychiatrist Jerome Jaffe says flatly that he has neither seen nor heard of any admissions to mental wards that seemed to result from marijuana. But he concedes that there may be mental or brain damage from long-continued, high-dosage use of more potent cannabis preparations such as hashish...
...have their coffee. They consume 20 million cups a day, even though they now have to gulp it on the run. The man who has done the most to exploit this yearning is Carlo Ernesto Valente, 54, whose Faema espresso-coffee machines can spill out a fresh cup of potent brew in as little as ten seconds...
...time-consuming Italian process. Whole coffee beans are electrically ground into a fine powder. Just enough for one cup is dropped into the filter of the machine where it is packed tight under pressure. Then boiling water is pumped downward through the grounds-and out flows the potent black brew...