Word: saliva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrary to last year's theories, AIDS may be transmitted through saliva, according to the research of a Harvard Medical School professor...
...study also tested a new way of collecting samples Members of the research group collected saliva instead of blood samples for the tests Ellison explained that saliva "was an easier medium and subjects are much more willing to cooperate...
...pamby excuse heard in recent months to explain the cancellation of his trip. In what amounted to a letter of apology to Marcos, Reagan assured the Filipino President that he would have gone ahead with the visit if it were not for a "problem with Congress." Adding more verbal saliva to Marcos' bootstraps, Reagan wrote that he was looking forward to meeting with Marcos "when a mutually acceptable date can be set" and that "our friendship for you remains as warm as ever...
...straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva. It originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of someone whose father had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...
...spent $4.5 million but had scant influence, produced a moderate Congress. To govern, Reagan must deal with Congress, not with the right. "We're not such a great majority in the world," he told the conservative magazine Human Events last week, "that we can be giving ourselves political saliva tests all the time...