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...since changed that view, partly because he has somewhat reformed his soldiery. The men have come to revere him. For one thing, he looks every inch a general. A big man, heavily muscled (6 feet 2 inches, 200 pounds), he has a strong, square face lightly marked by small pox. At 44, he is in perfect condition but for several missing teeth. He dresses in a fine uniform of dark blue faced with buff, set off by brass buttons. He is a great horseman -some say the best in Virginia...
...effective in stopping viral multiplication. When the solution was applied to cells already infected with herpes, the spread of the virus was reduced by 50%. While the extract has not yet been tested on other types of herpes-like viruses that are responsible for such illnesses as chicken pox, shingles and mononucleosis, the Californians believe that it could also inhibit them...
Like Chauvin. By way of retaliation, U.S. presidential hopefuls may be tempted to emulate France's Nicolas Chauvin and cry a pox on all alien coinages. Admittedly many of these words and phrases are silly, frilly, misused and mispronounced by Yanks; they range, without any particular élan or éclat, from soupçon and soupe du jour to déjà vu and á la almost anything. However, there are hundreds of French words imbedded in the English language for which there are no substitutes-even the politician may find it hard to oppose the tongue...
...then and the end of the fiscal year, next June, New York must beg or borrow yet another $3 billion or so. It can accomplish this only if it can market bonds to the nation's investors, who have lately viewed New York's paper as a pox. To regain their confidence and start putting its finances in order, the city has had to surrender a sizable chunk of home rule to the state...
Washington's most erudite young writer, George Will, pronounced it a "tremendous summer." His two children got the chicken pox, and he explored a whole new field of community relations as the bug spread in his neighborhood. But there probably was no finer hour, he claims, than the August morning when he walked out his front door and declared his lawn "a wilderness area" to be left untouched for the remainder of the season. "My contribution to conservation," he explained...