Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snuff. In Newark, police discovered that practically all the patrons of Ah Lee Chung's den were required to bring their own opium...
...here as nothing. Nobody gave a damn for it. Nobody gave a damn whether an inmate in Buchenwald lived or died. The SS men, if they felt like it-if they just felt like it-would kill men as they wouldn't kill an animal, they would snuff out his life as they might that of an insect which they happened to see on the road...
...Just get the champion in the ring with his opponent, and the champ will do the rest. "The task is to get penicillin to the microbes," said Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming. "You can do it with a simple spray, snuff or lozenges." He predicted penicillin in lipsticks and tooth paste. A Lancet report describes a penicillin spray as "effective" in stubborn staphylococcus skin infections-e.g., multiple boils, pustular acne, impetigo, hair-follicle inflammation...
About 40% of U.S. counties lack full-time public-health service, about the same proportion have no registered hospital. Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff...
...know in the Senate we still keep the old snuffbox right up there where it's been for more than 80 years, with a fresh supply of snuff, though nobody ever dips into it. And there's a little silver box on each desk. What do you think is in that? Burnt sand that we're supposed to use when we sign our names in ink. Well, our legislative system is about as anachronistic...