Word: potions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fermented juice of a vine (probably Asdepias acida) they could get a drink that made them feel happy, courageous and of superhuman strength. They called it "soma." It was so potent that it gained the status of a deity (the Rigveda is repetitive with praises of the divine potion). That was about 3,500 years...
...most amusing speech of the evening came as Dutch Holland of the Red Cross gave Ulen a citation and medal for his many years as an instructor of life-saving. He recalled Ulen's old habit of giving his swimmers a potion resembling castor oil before each race...
...each stop he was well briefed on local grievances, had a special potion for local ailments. In Indianapolis he reminded internecine Indiana conservatives of their common enemy: "The radical A.D.A., which dominates the Democratic National Committee." In Los Angeles he pitched a more moderate appeal to California's golden harvest of independent votes: "Forget for the moment whether you are Republicans or Democrats...
...both biographies suggest, money on a big scale becomes a kind of magic potion. Common crotchets are taken for the stigmata of genius; petty fears mushroom to paranoia. A Gulbenkian day began with setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress...
...spotless Basel laboratories of the Swiss drug company Sandoz A.G. a short, trim scientist of 52 performed a strange experiment. Research Director Albert Hofmann meticulously dissolved five milligrams of white crystals in a test tube of water. Then, while tense assistants looked on, he swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly...