Word: liverence
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Perhaps the least congenial brand of serving lady, the Puree Mongole-flavor, frowns as she heaps your plate with French-fried cauliflower or dehydrated liver, hoping that death will result...
...Congolese executed in recent months: even before the rebels turned on the whites, they had brutally exterminated black opponents of their arcane revolutionary cause. At the monument, in the name of socialism and the Congolese People's Republic, the former mayor of Stanleyville had been eviscerated, his liver and kidneys eaten raw by a laughing rebel officer while the mayor slowly died...
Since the baby cannot metabolize galactose to glucose, the sugar that the body burns for energy, he must be put on a special milk-free diet. Otherwise he is almost certain to develop cataracts and cirrhosis of the liver and, if he does not die, to be mentally retarded...
...quietly did he die of a liver ailment at the age of 24 in Manhattan on Oct. 4 that not a line made the news columns. But when the will of Robert Vanderpoel Clark Jr. was probated last week, it showed an estate of $26,554,200, held principally in trusts and be queathed equally to his mother and wife of 2½ years. Clark was a great-grand son of Singer Manufacturing Founder Alfred Corning Clark, and he inherited the bulk of his fortune when his great-uncle died last February...
...huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see diagram). By growing rat-liver cells in the test tube, Dr. Bloch learned that they make cholesterol from the much simpler acetate ion (acetic acid minus a hydrogen ion). "My work since then," he says, "has been on the processes that the cell uses to manufacture the cholesterol molecule. This is a fantastically complex sequence of approximately...