Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extol and illustrate the glories of life in the Soviet Union, has been touring the great cities of Red China. With more than 11,000 individual displays, the Exhibition on Economic and Cultural Achievements of the Soviet Union has impressed capacity crowds in Peking and Shanghai with the wonder of such purported commonplaces of Russian life as nylon stockings, sable stoles, wristwatches, farm machinery, tractors, trucks, and ladies' high-heeled slippers...
With the rise of wonder drugs, the common aspirin might have been expected to suffer a decline. But instead, doctors say that use of aspirin is steadily on the rise (the U.S. alone consumes 42 million tablets a day). One of its chief uses: treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, one of the nation's commonest chronic illnesses...
...seated next to Stalin, and I noticed that he drank from a tiny glass that held about a thimbleful. He emptied it frequently and replenished it from a bottle he kept handy. I assumed that it was vodka, which everybody else was being served, and I began to wonder how Stalin could drink so much of that powerful beverage. Finally I asked him, and he looked at me and grinned. Then he leaned over to his interpreter and said, 'Tell the President it is French wine, because since my heart attack I can't drink...
...Chosen by the American Medical Association as General Practitioner of the Year: 66-year-old Dr. E. Roger Samuel of Mount Carmel, Pa. (pop. 15.000). A pipe smoker, Dr. Samuel thinks that wonder drugs are more dangerous than tobacco, said he had "too many bad results" in using antibiotics. His advice to young practitioners: collect your bills promptly, because "a person who owes you a bill is your worst enemy...
...vermouth with many things. Thousands of U.S. housewives use it in place of wine in the kitchen, whip up Asparagus Vermouth. Veal in Vermouth, Chicken in Vermouth. But the U.S. pours 95% of its vermouth into cocktails, most of it into the ever-dryer martini. And the wonder to Vermouthman Tribuno is that so much gets in. There once was a time when martinis had as much vermouth as gin. But now the rage is for dry martinis with dry vermouth in miniscule proportion. The very dry (six to one), the very, very dry (twelve to one) and the powder...