Word: aftereffect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inconsistent sensitivity to alcohol in a supposedly normal individual may be an aftereffect of infectious disease, Dr. Meerloo notes. Or it may follow exhaustion or starvation. A probable precipitant is the combination of a potent cocktail with some protein (just what, no one knows) in the canapés. Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear...
...prayers. A few looters (including five Irishmen) were executed. The quake destroyed a great many of the city's 40-odd churches and 90 convents, as well as the "best fish market in the world." London and Hamburg sent food, building materials and money, but the principal aftereffect of the Lisbon shock was sermonizing...
There is no reason to believe, however, that the radioactive aftereffect of the hydrogen bomb cannot be increased, if thai is what the designers want to do. First step would be the addition of an ingredient that yields free neutrons (L17 might be a good one). Next step would be to surround the bomb with 3 casing of an element that absorbs neutrons and becomes radioactive. Such a doctored H-bomb might poison a whole country...