Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such a quiet "great purpose," which is not the stuff of headlines, the U.S. could contribute to the world a clear and enduring leadership which is not the stuff of Communism...
With less culinary than mathematical skill, the researchers could not make the stuff into a palatable meal. Even a laboratory dog was reluctant to put the mess away. The only conclusion: a computer could live cheaper than a human because it has no taste buds...
...situation from Gerold Frank's bestselling biography (TIME, Nov. 24, 1958) of Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's girl friend during the last sad years of his life as a Hollywood hack. The book pretended, with some authority, to be the hard, straight stuff-novelist on the rocks. But Producer Jerry (The Best of Everything) Wald decided that the stuff was too strong for the customers he was after, and he attempted to water the old Fitzgerald down and sweeten it up. The result is one of those long, pale, fruity concoctions that...
...same old adulterant that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
Something Done. After spending several weeks of detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case...