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Word: yams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pills are Enovid, trade name of Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. for norethynodrel, and Norlutin, trade name of Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co. for norethindrone (also called norethisterone).* These two chemicals, both extracted from the root of the barbasco (Mexican yam), are as alike as tweedledum and tweedledee. They are almost but not quite the same chemically as a natural female hormone that controls much of the menstrual cycle and helps to prevent ovulation-release of an egg from the ovary to the Fallopian tube, where a sperm can fertilize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Pills | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Cash in Advance. With Elvis just discharged from the Army and hotter than a radioactive yam-his new record, Stuck on You, is boiling with sales, and shooting began last week on his new movie, G.I. Blues-Parker is busier than ever filling out deposit slips. This week on ABC-TV, Frank Sinatra and his fellow clansmen are welcoming Elvis home-and the gesture is costing Frankie $125,000. This time the Colonel will accept a check, but he usually prefers cash-in advance. Las Vegas' gaudy New Frontier once pleaded that its check was as good as anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPRESARIOS: The Man Who Sold Parsley | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Another of Tennessee Ernie's current raids on the classics, involving a Mark Twain parody-a sort of "Confederate Yam at King Arthur's Court." Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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