Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizens of Magna, Utah, the word's meaning will soon be as vivid as a new next-door neighbor. Under terms of the just completed INF treaty, 30 to 40 Soviet inspectors will be stationed for 13 years in this flat, dusty mining community 16 miles west of Salt Lake City. Magna is home to nine bars, some dozen churches and the Hercules Aerospace Co., which has made boosters for Pershing II missiles...
Beyond the long curves of palmetto and Australian pine, huge billboards promise Treasure Coast, Orlando, Cape Canaveral, St. Augustine. But on I-95 there is no sign of habitation. Even the armadillos are dead. The highway flies over Jacksonville and descends in the low salt marshes of Georgia. Savannah, by some gracious concession of the engineers, is only 14 miles away, a snoozing 19th century time capsule. At Mrs. Wilkes' famous boardinghouse, breakfast is served on 13 platters, and a man at the table says he works on the railroad...
...jaded oculii were roaming carelessly, just the other day, through a salt-stained numero of the Daily when they happened to rest on Higginson Snotbottom's numinously scriptatory editorial effusion, "Why Daily Pensters Don't Wear Clothes." I fear they rested but a moment, a soi-disant hermeneutic flicker in my day, since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte...
That year I remember when I relished the opportunity to nab the salt and pepper shakers to show my Adams House eating companions how predictable the Multiflex was under the quarterbacks we had that year...
...Louis City Hospital in 1968 with chronic genital swelling. The youngster, then 15, admitted that he was sexually active; laboratory tests disclosed that he had a severe case of chlamydia, a common but curable venereal disease. Doctors prescribed several antibiotics and put him on a low-salt diet. Nothing worked. His muscles wasted away, and his lungs filled with fluid. Robert R. died on May 15, 1969. An autopsy revealed the distinctive purplish lesions of AIDS- related Kaposi's sarcoma...