Word: yo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...science of immunology dates back considerably farther than the year 1796. In the year A.D. 1000 the Chinese physician Yo-Meishan successfully inoculated the emperor's grandson with dried crusts of smallpox to render him immune from a serious attack. This practice of inoculation was introduced into England in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, who had had her son inoculated in Turkey...
...went back after Foreman to look for it. But, he never saw it. Two of the last three times, it hit him so hard that he was lifted several inches into the air. The final time, it just sort of crumbled him. But, he got up, like a twisted yo-yo, still looking, not quite understanding the sound of the cheering crowd...
...hired Ollie to train its personnel, and it is now testing Ollie-burgers-at a high 95? each-in its Ohio outlets. Gleichenhaus is not entirely sure that Lum's countermen can duplicate his masterpiece: "Those yo-yos are looking for a short way to make my burgers, but there's no way other than the right way." Even so, Brown intends to go nationwide with Ollie-burgers within a year, and has prepared 63 television commercials featuring Ollie in "an Archie Bunker kind of approach." The rest may some day be history...
Foxx's delivery of such gag lines is like a rasp drawn gently across the funnybone. With timing that would take an atomic clock to measure, he teases a laugh like a yo-yo on the end of a string. A figure of grizzled aplomb, he can get up from a spread of ham hocks and pinto beans, then strut through a junky living room as if he were Louis XIV in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...Yo-Yo Going Down. American tourists who thought that the December devaluation had stabilized the dollar rate have been startled to find it bouncing up and down like a yo-yo-but mostly down. "They come into the hotel and walk over to the board that lists exchange rates, shake their heads and mumble," says a Paris Hilton executive...