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Only they know the secret drop formula. Twice a year William retires behind locked doors, mixes a large batch of concentrate, enough for six months' production. Robert says only that it contains some charcoal "to sweeten the stomach" and some licorice "to soothe the throat...
Therapeutics. Then the clinic is ready to attempt a cure. Students put their fingers lightly on their lips or throat, often discover with surprise that they are reading "out loud" (which slows them up). Readers who shy away from new or long words get a dictionary to strengthen their "word attack": vocabulary, spelling, "phonics" (tying sounds to letters...
Heart specialists have found rheumatic fever a complicated, baffling disease. Though it is usually preceded by a streptococcus infection (e.g., a "strep" throat, scarlet fever), researchers have not been able to establish the connection between the germ (hemolytic streptococcus) and R.F. It seems to thrive best in crowded slums, but it is not unusually prevalent among Negroes. It is chronically high in sparsely settled Colorado...
Provocation. In New Albany, Ind., Mrs. Goldie Sutton testified that her late husband had 1) thrown her over a cliff, breaking her collarbone, 2) trod on her neck, 3) doused her with kerosene and set her afire, 4) slashed at her throat with a razor, 5) menaced her with hot grease, 6) shoved her out a window, 7) singed her hair with a shotgun blast. The jury thereupon acquitted her of first-degree murder...
...wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...