Word: tartars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three epics a year, Wayne feinted a jab with Big Jim McLain, the story of a ham-fisted HUAC investigator. It failed because Wayne was as uneasy in mufti as he was playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. In that film, Mongolia became westernized when Wayne announced to Tartar Woman Susan...
...Union Communist Party, which, in its coverage of the 1905 Czarist terrors, displeased Stalin; it contained certain "errors" in connection with the theory of permanent revolution. Professor Nikolai Naumovich Elvov, who had written the offending passage, also happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Incredibly, Mrs. Ginzburg was arrested and denounced as a Trotskyite and counter-revolutionary because she had failed to write a review for her publication denouncing Elvov's Tartar book. In short, the masters of a Brechtian netherworld of logical non-reason accused her of not doing something...
...National Institute of Dental Research, most of the focus is on periodontal disease, which actually claims three times as many teeth as do cavities when people are past 35. To date, the main preventive treatment has been regular cleaning to remove the bacteria-containing film and tartar. Within two years, several commercial firms may be marketing new anti-periodontal-disease products in the form of toothpastes and mouthwashes...
...blood from the vein entering the patient's liver, pumping it through a filter, and returning it to a vein in the leg (see diagram). In order to lure the flukes out of their customary lairs in the intestinal veins, they give patients a single injection of tartar emetic. The flukes, which find the emetic as unpleasant as most human beings do, come scurrying out into the main bloodstream, and are shunted through the tubes. Since they are about half an inch long, they are stopped and trapped by the filter, while the blood passes through, unharmed...
...future, General Dynamics is in line for a pair of plums: likely to become $1 billion projects are the jobs of refitting Polaris subs to handle the advanced Poseidon missile and building a new Navy Standard Missile to supplement two of its earlier products, the Tartar and the Terrier...