Word: salts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gentle the deer with solicitude Solace them with salt Comfort them with apples Prepare them for the rectitude Of Man who will come A stranger with the unfamiliar...
After laborious FMS extraction, the Kekwick team finally collected enough to try on six patients at Middlesex Hospital. Put on a diet of 1,500 calories per day, the patients received injections every other day. Half of the time they got FMS; the rest of the time they got salt solution. In the salt periods they lost only an average of 81 grams (less than 3 oz.) per day, while on FMS they lost 231 grams or just over half a pound...
...Your cover article on the commercial [July 12] was an exquisite amalgam of love, truth, beauty, corn and a little salt...
...disease, require fussy diets and demand constant coddling. "They pull your ears affectionately," says Sabah Conservator of Forests Thomas Bayles, "and they go to bed hugging each other." Worse yet, they take all too eagerly to the comforts of domestication, quickly develop a fondness for such civilized delicacies as salt, pineapples and chicken eggs. Despite efforts to toughen them up by letting them run loose, the adolescent orangs swing down from their treetop nests when it rains and sleep in their dry cages...
...remember how it started . . . All the kids were out to play, Then she said, "Hey, let's play 'May I.'" On a forthcoming record, a group called the Salt Water Taffy chants Sticks & Stones: Nothing you could say could ever make me leave her. . . . Save your breath 'cause I'm ignoring, But don't forget it's me that's scoring...