Word: tartaric
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...schistosomiasis, had collected the snails in Egypt's labyrinthine irrigation ditches. An expert in Egypt's ministry of public health, he deliberately caught the disease in 1944 during experiments to protect the U.S. against infestation by returning servicemen. The only effective cure for him was injections of tartar emetic, which left him nauseated for eight months...
Overnight, Durocher the tartar became Durocher the martyr. Leo permitted himself a wan smile for photographers, spoke a sentiment for the press that he had seldom been able to utter before: "It's swell to know that some people are behind...
Preliminary laboratory tests, says Dr.Hyser, have shown a "tremendous" reduction in the number of bacteria in the mouth after the brushless cleaning. Other tests are still to be made, but he is convinced it will keep tartar from forming. It cleans along the gum line, where many cavities start, and between the teeth. About 200 samples of slightly different designs are now being used by other dentists and by Dr. Hyser's patients...
...enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...
This week, as another autumn moon lit up the traditional festival, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned his countrymen to rise against another kind of Tartar in the national household. "We should understand," he cried in a broadcast to the people, "that in addition to the treacherous rebels who are rampant today, speculation, manipulation and high living to the point of lasciviousness on the part of social parasites in our midst are also to blame for our crisis ... It is my intention to wash away these social dregs by opening the floodgates of public conscience and social justice...