Word: powders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Founded in 1884 by Elkhart Physician Franklin Miles, who started off with a liquid sedative known as Dr. Miles' Nervine, Miles remained a small company until the early 1930s, when it brought out Alka-Seltzer. Though archrival Bromo-Seltzer had already been marketing an effervescent powder for years, Alka-Seltzer soon moved ahead to become a dyspeptic nation's favorite (it now outsells Bromo-Seltzer 4 to 1). After packaging powdered coffee and lemon mix for K-rations during World War II, Miles Laboratories became in the postwar years the world's largest seller of multivitamin tablets...
...Which, according to lore, was brought to Ceylon in the 4th century by a princess who had hidden it in her hair when Buddhism was driven out of India. Centuries later, a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa had the tooth ground into powder and thrown into the sea. But a Sinhalese prince later proclaimed that the tooth had reassembled itself and returned to its sanctuary...
Urban Impatience. The riots were triggered by a government edict that would have shunted failing students over 17 into technical curriculums. Only 300 of Morocco's 62,000 high school students were affected, but the innocuous announcement was enough to touch off a powder keg of underlying discontent. Unfortunately, Moroccans have plenty to be discontented about...
...Rubinstein could clearly recall her first impression upon landing in New York in 1914. "It was a cold day," she would say in speech still heavily accented from her Polish girlhood. "All the American women had purple noses and grey lips, and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the U.S. could be my life's work...
...tour, permitted his guest from London only a fleeting glimpse of black nationalist spokesmen who oppose white rule. He was allowed three hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have little following in the cities, stood...