Word: spinach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brain damage and other developmental defects. Though this phenomenon may have no relevance to MSG's use in food, there is no medical evidence on the possible damage of concentrated MSG in a baby's bloodstream. In fact, many potentially harmful chemicals occur naturally in familiar foods. Spinach is rich in oxalic acid, which is the foundation for a common type of kidney stone. (Popeye in real life would have suffered endless agonies from passing stones.) Carotene, the pigment that puts the color in egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots, is used by the body to make...
...through pension funds and mutual funds. For many families, tumbling stock prices have at least temporarily shattered some cherished dreams. Yet the market's unsettled state brings a wry kind of cheer to Washington's inflation fighters. In their rather clinical view, stock prices are much like spinach prices or durable-goods orders: an economic indicator. Because the market mirrors investors' expectations of the performance of U.S. business, it is a valuable (but sometimes flawed) barometer of the economic future. A stock-market decline is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the Government is finally beginning...
...learn someday that he can never hope to be a Supreme court justice, or the leading teacher in Property, or the head of the Peace Corps, or even the senior partner at Rolly, Polly, Gamin & Spinach. Perhaps it is just as well to face a kind of preliminary and inconclusive sorting out even while one is in law school, for this may make it easier to face a sorting out that he confronts all through his life in a competitive profession and a competitive world...
...particular, is such a confused area is that there are no critical standards by which to judge the music. White rock musicians today have nothing, in Dylan's phrase, to live up to. And the audiences will pay in turn to be insulted (The Mothers), bored (The Ultimate Spinach), assaulted (The Fugs and MC 5), ignored (The Jefferson Airplane and Procol Harum), and urinated upon by a lukewarm assemblage of beligerent flower-cretins. Entertainment is left up to a very few white groups who know how to act onstage, such as the Who, the Stones, the Rascals, and most...
...feet, flashing his hands around and laughing. I looked at Billy, our rhythm guitarist, who shrugged. It was obvious that this Douglas cat belonged in Bridgewater. I just said yeah, I guess we ought to, and Douglas disappeared from my life until the next fall when the Ultimate Spinach album came out. I was with the Bead Game by then, fighting hard to get ahead, playing exclusively our own music, and I read, as I stood there holding this green vegetable psychotic album in my hands, "Top-40 isn't where it's at, any more." The Ultimate Spinach...