Word: saliva
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hardened Saliva. Georgie found plenty of compensations, notably when he could go on jungle safari with the natives to gather birds' nests. In the land where the orchids grow wild, the men have grown tame, but collecting birds' nests still requires skill and daring. Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does...
...Hill, master huckster, coined the advertising slogan, "SPIT is a horrid word, but it's worse on the end of your cigar." Until Hill and his machine-made Cremos, the U.S. had happily smoked stogies rolled by hand. It was Hill's contention that cigar makers' saliva held the stogies together at their tip, but cigar makers insisted that they used vegetable...
Since alcohol affects different parts of the body in different ways, the Journal explains, its effects must be considered separately. For example, it is true that alcohol in the mouth stimulates the flow of saliva and thus helps digestion-but so does lemon juice. A little alcohol in the stomach increases the secretion of gastric juice, but the Journal contends that concentrations over 5% (likely to be reached after the first Martini) slow up the digestive process...
...were dropped by an R.C.A.F. plane and food was hauled in. In the windowless, filthy hovels, modern nursing techniques were impossible. Said Nurse Bond: "It was not the easiest thing to look professional in Arctic regalia, crawling into a tepee on hands & knees and having to squat on the saliva-spattered ground while the smoke from the bonfire blinded one. Our favorite expression soon became klootna-kloon [too much smoke] . . . and it was flattering to enter the wigwams and be greeted with chai-wootcha [good woman...
...boots and a big black mustache) and rushing through the plant cracking a large whip and crying, "You must vote!" But after listening to Berry's explanation-that the union had given him the idea by getting out a pamphlet in which he was depicted as a saliva-drooling wolf-the board decided to let the results stand...