Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slightly under middle height, built thickly and compactly, Turkey's Prime Minister at 55 is quick-moving, intense, with direct brown eyes in a full-fleshed, dark, mobile face set off with a small, grey mustache, horn-rimmed glasses and insufficient salt & pepper hair. He likes his fun and has it, drinks a wide variety of liquors, from national raki to good Scotch whiskey, but is more moderate now than in his younger days. He is still spry in friendly company, often takes to the dance floor to perform the Sarizeybek, a finger-snapping, foot-stomping Izmir mountain dance...
...fast that the drops cannot easily be counted - usually about 210 drops a minute. But the flow into the caudal space is only about 80 to 110 drops a minute. To determine whether the injecting tube is in the right space, they make a test flow with a harmless salt solution. If the flow is slow, they confidently go ahead with the anesthetic. If the flow is over 150 a minute, they try another anesthesia...
Died. Rudger Clawson, 86, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Latter-day Saints; in his native Salt Lake City. Son of an associate of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, one of the last who saw Brigham Young, plain, gentle, white-thatched Apostle Clawson served most of a four-year Federal sentence for bigamy committed in 1883. Long an able hierarch, in his lifetime he traveled 576,000 miles on church business...
...inspected the infection with the glasses. He saw at once that it was a carbuncle and shouted his prescription: "Soak continually in Epsom salt compresses. Don't lance. Give 40 grains sulfathiazole by mouth. Take plenty of fluid." Then we steamed back to our place in the escort...
...Chaplains begin to sing, the first verse, then the third verse of Rock of Ages, The ranking Chaplain (of 13) on Attu, Lieut. Colonel Reuben E. Curtis, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, opens his khaki Bible and reads "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee...