Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern repeated itself in later years. The ways of passive action-the sari-clad women lying on railway tracks, the distilling of illicit salt from the sea, the boycotting of British shops, the strikes, the banner-waving processions-would lead to shots in the streets, to burning and looting. Gandhi always punished himself for his followers' transgressions by imposing a fast on himself...
...Grass, Alas! In Salt Lake City, Park Commissioner Fred Tedesco reported that some highly specialized crooks had been at work in Fairmont Park: 225 square feet of lawn had disappeared...
...would swing down to Sapulpa, Okla. to see his in-laws; up to Kansas City for a night's rest; out to Salt Lake City for the Governors' Conference; back to Owosso, Mich, to see his mother and to show his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to Tom Jr. He explained: "We've always wanted the boys to know the West as soon as they were old enough to appreciate...
...below) and Paul Reasor wanted to find out why people with congestive heart failure have so much trouble getting rid of water, and thus show such symptoms as massively swollen legs. They suspected that sodium, an extremely "thirsty" element, had something to do with it. So they fed patients salt containing radioactive sodium, and followed the sodium's course. Sure enough, they discovered that the patients retained nearly all the sodium that was fed to them. Result: sodium kept seeping into the tissues from the blood stream, and extra water followed the sodium. The water caused swelling...
Specialists have realized for some time that such heart patients do poorly on a normal diet, and need as little salt as possible. A diuretic, to help the patients get rid of water, is also a standard treatment. But Drs. Burch and Reasor showed that the big problem is to get rid of sodium rather than water. For that purpose, a mercurial diuretic is best; it carries off excess sodium in urine...