Word: salting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papuans. The Indonesian army warned that it would not be gentle with dissidents. "Many of us didn't agree to Indonesian control, but we were afraid," one of the delegates told TIME Correspondent David Greenway, who visited West Irian last week. Others were wooed with gifts of salt, tobacco, cloth, beer, outboard motors and junkets to Djakarta. Between intimidation and persuasion, the Indonesians managed to win a unanimous vote in favor of annexation...
...year contract, Russell ends a career in which he helped the Celtics to eleven championships in 13 seasons. Russell says he is now considering a career in "the field of entertainment." But back in Boston, they were taking it all with a grain of salt. Said Celtics General Manager Red Auerbach: "As far as I'm concerned, Bill Russell will be retired only if he doesn't show up on the first day of camp...
Many of the 25 stories translated by Max Hayward for this edition were published in Russia during Babel's lifetime, but only a few even begin to approach the lyrical force of such concentrated conceptions as the widely known The Story of My Dovecot, Lyubka the Cossack and Salt. The Jewess, longest story in the book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess...
Regulation Hit. No less dangerous, according to Nader, is baby food. He told the committee that the salt and monosodium glutamate added to baby foods serves no nutritional purpose and may actually cause harm. A team of physicians backed him up. They testified that the salt could cause hypertension. They reported that flavor-enhancing MSG, which is added to baby foods to please test-tasting parents, produces the headaches and chest pains of "Chinese-restaurant syndrome" in adults and causes brain and eye damage in test animals. The doctors urged that MSG be removed from the Food and Drug Administration...
Also under severe criticism from the experts, though not yet the targets for FDA regulatory action, are medicated mouthwashes. The panel on drugs used in dentistry found that mouthwashes are generally about as effective as a solution of common salt or even plain water. It suggested that the makers be required to drop claims that their products control breath odor, relieve throat pain or reduce the number of bacteria in the mouth. The washes should be allowed on the market, the panel said, only if they are advertised as "pleasantly flavored solutions...