Word: talcumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crate Lifter. Then Bernstein heard that Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Alcott Thompson had developed an operation which quickly restored people like himself to useful, active lives. It sounded too good to be true: the surgeon just dumps talcum powder into the heart sac in a 20-minute operation. Satisfied that it had worked well on other patients, Bernstein had the operation in July. Last week, at his company's Philadelphia plant, 50-year-old Abe Bernstein put in a nine-hour day, hefted 100-lb. crates with no visible harm. Said he: "The only time I feel lousy...
...Straight Dope. In Seattle, federal narcotics agents nabbed a suspect, found that the stuff he had been peddling as heroin was really talcum powder, charged him with grand larceny...
...Almost all foods need makeup. To give that rich look to cream, add a pinch of the deep yellow spice turmeric. A rubbed-on mixture of lipstick and wax improves oranges; grapes should be lightly dusted with talcum powder; paint steaks and roasts with undiluted grape juice. Butter, ironically, looks best when fortified with a little of the coloring usually sold with oleomargarine...