Word: powdering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salesperson recommended Echinacea Special Formula Tea with peppermint leaf, scintillating wild cherry bark and lemon grass (tangy!) for $3.99. An alternative is the Wellness Formula ($10.98) made of, among other things, garlic powder and ginseng. "It makes you sweat" explained the bespectacled assistant, "You sweat out all the toxins." Hmmm. Another option is the honey-based homeopathic cough syrup...
...metallurgy and ship-building reached the world's best level in ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyu initiated the 12-tone temperament, which later became the universal standard tones. Chinese medicine is a unique school of its own. China's four great inventions of paper-making, gun-powder, printing and [the] compass [...] changed the face of the world. These inventions and creations of China have brought forward the rationalistic brilliance of coordination between humanity and [...] nature, and the integration of scientific spirit with moral ideals...
...found not much food, but some pancake powder and some egg powder and potatoes and beans, and this saved my life, absolutely...
...friend Sara quickly pulls a glass vial from her bra. After a glance around for security, she holds the black-capped vial under a pulsing light, revealing the powder she first came across in July. Now, she says, "I'm into it like every weekend." Sara is 16, and what she's into is an anesthetic sometimes administered to people but, more commonly, to cats and monkeys. Generically called ketamine, street K is most often diverted in liquid form from vets' offices or medical suppliers. Dealers dry the liquid (usually by cooking it) and grind the residue into powder...
...taken a hit, you've made big money if you jumped in with both feet. A "buy the dips" philosophy has outperformed any other strategy imaginable. When will this faultless method let us down? When should we be scared to take advantage of a swoon and instead take a powder and lock in the gains of the greatest bull market of all time? Oddly, we have the answer. It's just been obscured by the big event known as the Crash...