Word: saliva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known to be toxic and to act on the central nervous system. And the main technique of Cro-Magnon art, according to prehistorian Michel Lorblanchet, director of France's National Center of Scientific Research, involved not brushes but a kind of oral spray-painting-blowing pigment dissolved in saliva on the wall. Lorblanchet, who has re-created cave paintings with uncanny accuracy, suggests that the technique may have had a spiritual dimension: "Spitting is a way of projecting yourself onto the wall, becoming one with the horse you are painting. Thus the action melds with the myth. Perhaps the shamans...
...gets the "afro Puffs" on his head to stand out: I just rub them, like you rub a genie lamp. there's not much get at all, may be some saliva. I know that's foul like greaser-style but I've one that before...
...stands, students have every incentive to hurry by the tables without even a glance. The Red Cross' table has little to offer. Why spoil one's dinner with thoughts of bodily fluids other than saliva? The Alliance for Life's display carries some frightening portentions. What if you're a pre-med looking at a future in obstetrics? You might just be facing down the person who will one day point a gun in your face...
...disease is generally transmitted through oral contact or saliva exchange, which is the source of its nickname, "the kissing disease." But kissing is far from the only way to get the disease...
...saliva index--measuring how much voters spit and complain--is high right now," Luntz said. "And the letter 'P' [as in president] lends itself to saliva...