Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as it's the seat of his pants which is the butt of his publicity pranks, Mickey can have a good laugh and other people can laugh with him and everything is fine. But when he starts poking fun at the legislative process and at the principles of law themselves, the laugh turns to a whinny. When Mickey introduced his latest resolution about the deletion of Lenin and Leningrad from the Cambridge scene, and then proceeded to secure its unanimous passage by the Cambridge City Council, he destroyed all the faith anyone could have had in his sincerity...
...result of this and other stories, most musicians felt that the play might be a success, but that it would be a commercial and not an artistic one. They felt that the book was undergoing typical Broadway treatment and being completely slaughtered in the process--the casting of Hawkins being an example...
Metabolism is the dynamic process whereby the body uses food for energy, growth and repairs. Chief regulator of metabolism is the thyroid gland, two small lobes of spongy tissue which straddle the windpipe. Doctors have long worried over the relation between: 1) metabolism; 2) supercharging of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism); 3) diabetes. In hyperthyroidism, bodily functions are stepped up, and food is rapidly consumed in a roaring fire of metabolism. After meals, sugars (including digested starches) pile up in the bloodstream. Some of the sugars are converted into furious nervous energy. The excess spills over into the urine, is quickly...
...Guiterman smile is teasing-the smile of a verbal sweetmeat-maker who knows how words can be tenderized, much like prunes, to please the palates of the literarily refined. Guiterman's tenderization process consists in rhyming and chiming big and little, tough and honeyed words together, and packing them into tight verse forms, that insure a close misfit...