Word: quacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business as usual. The Soviet Union was attacked with customary stridency. The Chinese officially rejected condolence messages from the Communist parties in Moscow and most of the Soviet-bloc countries, including Cuba and Mongolia. A diatribe against Moscow's policy toward the developing world was entitled "Soviet Quack Medicine Go to Hell." The Chinese also took delight in the defection to the West of MIG-25 Pilot Viktor Belenko (TIME, Sept. 20), cheering that it "put the Soviets in a fix and shamed them into a rage...
...colas but of the letters. Their conclusion: Pepsi's test was invalid because people like the letter M better than they like Q. Chicago Marketing Consultant Steuart H. Britt theorizes that Q is disliked because of the number of unpleasant words that begin with Q (quack, quitter, quake, qualm, queer...
Partly in response to repeated arrests of Laetrile distributors under California's tough "anti-quack" laws, some of the drug's boosters have been insisting that Laetrile, even if it is not a cure for cancer, produces a euphoric effect, relieves a victim's pain and has cancer-preventing nutritional value. But cancer specialists do not regard it so benignly. Said an American Cancer Spciety spokesman: "It is thoroughly disingenuous to say Laetrile is harmless, because when cancer patients rely on it, they are often substituting it for treatment that might really help them...
...around the place than he is seduced by the "crackle of civilized conversation" inside the house and becomes a bedded and bored member of the Brown commune. As identity crises follow, the fields lie fallow. Meanwhile, Bumpers worries lest his consistently ineffectual advice will brand him not just a quack but "a quack manqu...
...toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development of new drugs. The latest report is by two pharmacologists from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The current laws, argue Drs. William Wardell and Louis Lasagna...