Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influx of a hundred or more junkies from the U.S. and Canada, exhibited a forbidden-fruit syndrome. Addicts and their experimenting friends found that they got more of a kick from illegally acquired fixes than from prescription pills. They even complained that stuff smuggled in was more potent than the domestic supply, whereas the opposite was true...
...EPENA, a potent snuff, is produced by the naked Waika Indians of northern Brazil-a tribe so backward that they have not yet discovered pots. But their hallucinatory snuff can induce a "trip" faster than LSD. Made from the bark of the epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits...
Weiland, especially pleased by the performance of Dennis Clark on defense Saturday, is keeping Ben Smith at wing for his scoring ability. Weiland feels Smith's passing makes the first line more potent, as Pete Mueller's speed does the second, and Barry Johnson's strength does the third...
...troops extend their operations in Viet Nam, especially in the Central Highlands, the Viet Cong have found an ally in an especially severe form of malaria resistant to the most potent drugs. Now an Army doctor, Major Peter J. Bartelloni, reports in the A.M.A. Journal that the wonder druggists have done it again. A new, long-acting sulfa, sulformethoxine, developed in Britain, has sent the cure rate soaring and, just as dramatically, reduced the relapse rate...
...vicious falciparum type of malaria parasite is responsible for virtually all the malaria that strikes U.S. troops, despite their "Sunday pill" of chloroquine and pyrimethamine. These parasites even overcome the protective effect of a potent third antimalarial, dia-phenylsulfone (DOS), given to troops in the highlands. Falciparum's fever may be fatal if it attacks the brain. Last winter U.S. medics were saving nearly all their patients by intensive treatment with chloroquine and quinine, but 40% of the men suffered relapses...