Word: saliva
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...bidding of a dental-health educator, the kids chomped energetically on a wad of flavored wax. When the wax had done its job of stimulating a free flow of saliva, the dentist collected a saliva sample from each child and mixed it with a special reagent. Within a few minutes, the samples showed a variety of colors. These color changes, according to an inventive biochemist, Dr. Gustav W. Rapp of Chi cago's Loyola University, predict whether a child is likely to develop a lot of tooth cavities. The colors (from an enzyme in the saliva) will indicate...
Geneticists even took the saliva from different types of mosquitoes to compare their chromosomes...
Virus B belongs to the herpes family, and the victim may have been infected by saliva-a monkey's spit may be as bad as its bite. Lederle now allows only specially trained personnel, following rigid rules, to be near its temperamental monkeys...
Freud? Nyet! Western psychiatrists who had been hoping to find the Russians tapering off in their single-minded adherence to the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of dog, bell and saliva fame, were disappointed. The delegation chief, Moscow's Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky, laid down the line uncompromisingly: "There has been no change in principle in our approach. The theory of Pavlov and its applications are still expanding in Russia...
...defeat more than once, but they are ours and we cannot graciously renounce them. Simple loyalty is a more powerful force than all the serpents, who hiss the tunes of realistic appraisal. The Red Sox will endure. The noble Williams, who so justly detested his public, and whose grand saliva made rainbows inspiring to behold, is no longer with them, but they will endure...