Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert V. Seliger, Johns Hopkins' famed alcoholism specialist, first quieted the patient with sedatives, then fed into his veins two "quarts of a mixed solution of sugar, salt, vitamin B-1 and insulin. The hallucinations became milder; the patient went through the motions of tending bar, smoking (flicking imaginary ashes into an imaginary tray), and after a time began to repair an imaginary watch...
...news," says Executive Editor William Kerby. "We deal in situations." The dealing is done six days a week at 44 Broad Street, in a block-long newsroom with chartreuse curtains and a soundproofed ceiling. As an extra service, the Journal prints tried & true jokes in a "Pepper & Salt" humor column, suggests that readers retell them at lunch "or to clear the air at a tough conference...
After all, the trip was planned partly for the boys, Tom Jr., 14, and John, 11. So last week the Deweys started off from Salt Lake City for a week's sightseeing in Utah, Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming...
...boys had not been too impressed. Tom, the mustacheless image of his father, had looked over briny Great Salt Lake and had dismissed it with "Give me the pool at our house in Albany any time." During the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, he had signed autographs with a patient smile. Politicking had been more fun. He had sidled around the lobby of the Hotel Utah, spotting governors by their name badges and surreptitiously reading the name. Then he marched up and offered his hand with a hearty: "How do you do, Governor...
...Faithful Inn, the Deweys rested. Tom Sr. felt that everything was going fine. Ten of the 17 Republican governors polled at the Salt Lake conference had picked him as the likeliest Republican presidential nominee. "I hadn't thought it would be that overwhelming," said the Governor modestly...