Word: teaspoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcoming ceremony, he shuffled past the guard of honor, clutching Giscard's arm. He seemed alert during his talks with Giscard, but his speech was badly slurred and he had trouble breathing. At dinner he sometimes did not respond when addressed and he ate his food with a teaspoon...
...Handful of Dust. Running through it is some wonderfully comic sexual burlesque-as, for instance, when Jaromil and his girl are making love, and his mother, hearing her moans (and knowing perfectly well what is happening), comes rushing into the room with a bottle of medicine and a teaspoon...
FAVORITE DRINK: Tower Club Tanker (a jigger of Brut cologue, a dash of orange Curasil, a black olive, and a teaspoon of Tang...
...common warm-weather hazard. Except in rare cases of serious shock, treatment is often omitted. But a cheap and effective antidote is readily available in the kitchen, according to a letter in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Harry Arnold Jr., a Honolulu dermatologist. His prescription: a quarter-teaspoon of meat tenderizer dissolved in a teaspoon or two of water and rubbed into the skin around the bite. Meat tenderizer, Arnold explains, is rich in papain, a protein-dissolving enzyme, which breaks down the venom. Arnold says that a dose of meat tenderizer will stop the pain of most insect stings...
THERE is something preposterous about picking individual poems or even collections out of this boundlessness," the Swedish Academy's secretary said last week of Pablo Neruda's work. It is "like bailing a 50,000-tonner with a teaspoon." Herewith a teaspoonful...