Word: powderly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their own resources-to the intense annoyance of the local residents. The ones who are too weak to walk remain where they are landed until they starve. Many of them try to prolong their sufferings by consuming inedible or semi-edible substances-hard woody roots . . . a dark green powder, prepared by drying and pounding certain leaves . . . heaps of banana skins and mango stones scavenged in the streets...
...Treatment consisted in giving a diet with a high protein content: liver, meat, fish and soya-bean derivates. We gave rice polishings in the form of a cake made with flour and a little baking powder and fried in peanut oil. These were very popular, especially with the children. Vitamins were given. [Some made] a rapid, uncomplicated recovery; in [others] progress was slow . . . with disappointing relapses and a tendency to die suddenly and unexpectedly...
...investigators also found that DDT can be absorbed through the skin. But in the diluted, powdered form in which DDT is usually used, it does not seem to be harmful: despite its wide use as a debusing powder in the war theaters, no case of DDT poisoning has yet been reported. The doctors' conclusion: DDT is "a definite health hazard," should be used with care...
...York City's famed and fiery Park Commissioner Robert Moses has blown exceedingly hot recently on the subject of foreign-born city planners with notions about the U.S. (TIME, July 24). His salvos have been charged with such powder as: "[the imported planner] is hurting our architecture by advocating a philosophy which doesn't belong here and fundamentally offers nothing more novel than the lally column and the two-by-four timber...
Margherita Clement, comely, 22-year-old Philadelphia socialite, ex-Powers model, smacked a damage suit on the man who last year stabbed her with a paring knife and hit her over the head with a whiskey bottle in the powder room of Philadelphia's Hotel Barclay. (Her attacker, onetime Soldier Socialite Sidney B. Dunn Jr., who gave as his reason, "She won't marry me and I'll fix her or kill her so she won't marry anybody else," is now serving a three-to-seven-year prison term.) Miss Clement asked $25,000 damages...