Word: salix
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...name salicylic acid is derived from the Latin salix, willow, though the same substance occurs in many plants, including spiraea, from which the word aspirin is derived...
...proposer of this plan was Pat Malloy, dark, thick-set Oklahoman. He was born at Salix, Iowa, 48 years ago. When he was 14, a cyclone killed his mother, father, sister, two brothers. As a Notre Dame graduate he went to Tulsa, served two terms as county prosecutor, once had a murder conviction set aside by a judge who ruled that "the prosecutor's closing argument was so eloquent as to have carried the jury beyond justice." For 20 years before his appointment to the Department of Justice in charge of criminal cases, Pat Malloy busied himself profitably...
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