Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leftists also got the ministries of Interior, Agriculture and Economics. But the King saw to it that a number of middle-roaders were included in the Cabinet, and that his own nominee became Defense Minister. The post went to 36-year-old Mohammed Aoud, who is reportedly destined to marry Princess Lalla Aisha (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957), thus keeping the army in the family...
...Brown and Page saw it, the trick was to reverse the animal-vegetable fat ratio while disturbing the eating patterns as little as possible. They did this by: 1) eliminating most of the saturated fat from the diet by cutting out fatty meats, butter, whole milk, cream, most cheeses, egg yolks, oleomargarine, hydrogenated shortenings, coconut and cocoa products; 2) adding cottonseed oil (though soybean, corn or peanut oil would have done as well) to make up the fat deficit...
Sixteenth century Portuguese explorers heard rumors of unusually primitive Indians in the state of Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then...
Timid Warriors. That year he saw no living Xetás. But when he went back the next year, Koi led him to a clearing, and there 18 Xetás were huddled in five shelters. The Xetás looked ferocious, with contorted mouths and tusks sticking out of their chins. Actually they were scared to death. Two of the fierce-looking men bolted into the jungle. The rest accepted gifts of sugar with trembling hands. But overnight, they vanished...
...have no known gods, but they fear and venerate the jaguar and live in a world infested with evil spirits. Some of these can be bested in rather crude ways. An agent of the Indian Protection Service saw two Xetá women taking turns stamping on the head of a prostrate male. They explained that they were driving out a spirit that was the cause of a headache. After about 20 minutes of this treatment, the patient got up feeling fine...