Word: tracting
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...deforming of bones in growing children. That's why D, found naturally in only a few foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead to death...
...gastrointestinal tract processed the shepherd's pie the night, I dreamt of green hills and grazing sheep...
Muhammad saved his words about Jews until the very end. He held up a Nation of Islam book titled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks And Jews, a tract filled with Jeffries-esque assertions about Jewish domination of the African slave trade. Muhammad then began defending his mentor, Louis Farrakhan, from accusations of anti-Semitism, saying "The criminal has turned it around on the good citizen...
...asked Tarek who had made that a Zionist objective. He named Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism. Now, I have read a lot of Herzl, and I just couldn't think of where he says such a thing. Herzl's main political tract, The Jewish State, is mostly about why Jews cannot remain in the Diaspora. Herzl discusses several possible sites for a Jewish state without even mentioning the subject of prior inhabitants, much less advocating their removal. (See, for example, pages 95-96 in the Dover edition...
THIS IS HOW it works. After a hard day on the job, the worker ants fork over the acid they collected in the peanut butter to the queen ant. The resulting stuffed up intestinal tract leads her to a cruel fate. Without a queen, the colony quickly succumbs to disorganization and death...