Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wizened and cross-eyed tribal witch doctor named Parserion arap Manyei, this official encouragement seemed a fine opportunity to settle some old scores. Twice exiled for anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf after leading the pack past the turn for home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip, and Bold Ruler went back to work. He was still pulling away when he won by two lengths. Behind him, outclassed Iron Liege had all he could do to keep a neck in front of outsider Inside Tract. Said...
Attention centered first on Dr. Stig Akerfeldt, a boyish (27), blond biochemist from Stockholm's famed Nobel Institute, who had reported that when a certain chemical is added to a sample of blood serum, it will turn a bright red if the subject has schizophrenia or other severe mental illness. Akerfeldt's method has been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt...
...psychiatrists need be told that the easiest people to deceive are ourselves." In this atmosphere. Heath was careful not to disclose anything about the beef extract's effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract injections for as long as 18 months, and another for eight months, so, while it may be relatively safe...
...mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line into an "Ernie-ism" ("I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs"), drive home a folksy Ford (Motor Co.) commercial, or tug tears with a lugubrious, deep-voiced version of The Lord's Prayer...