Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...
Soon Howard's men had six articles ready to go. When the State Department sent what Howard thought was a "mealymouthed" protest to Red China's Mao Tse-tung, Howard let fly with his first salvo...
...Jake had the edge in other small ways, e.g., his placements were steadier and he had learned the value of the lob. Since he turned pro in 1947, Big Jake had also learned about eating. When the schedule called for six or seven nights of consecutive play, he filled up on late-afternoon steaks and topped off with egg-nogs. But he cut down on the calories when there were off-nights ahead. Said Kramer: "I think I'll tell the fellows at Forest Hills, 'When it rains, eat light...
Henry VIII had six wives and a horde of mistresses, but none of them apparently did he love so fiercely as high-spirited Anne Boleyn. With other women he was the imperious monarch, but with her he was sometimes reduced to nail-biting anxiety...
...Six years after he married her, Henry had Anne's head chopped off, and he began writing more sedate love letters to wife No. 3, Jane Seymour...