Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroying nerve bundles in two tiny parts of the brain (one on each side) called the ansa lenticularis. But he found conventional surgery too crude and damaging: it meant putting a knife through healthy tissues to get at the almost inaccessible ansa lenticularis. He saw the same objections to alcohol injections (TIME, March 21, 1955). Dr. Meyers believed that ultrasound might prove sharper and more precise than any scalpel, worked with Fry in designing and building a treatment room for Iowa City...
...manhood with a sunny nature and an easy-breezy charm. Far from being rebellious, he always obeyed instantly-particularly when ordered by his instincts. At about 16 he discovered brothels, and thought them so sensible and wonderful that he never wearied of visiting them. Soon afterwards he discovered alcohol, took to it with the same enthusiasm. By the time he settled into his job as a Paris civil servant in 1864, while writing poetry on the side, Verlaine had achieved an odd condition: he embraced everything life had to offer so matter-of-factly that his intellectual friends found...
...beggars on crutches-whined for nickels and dimes, counted up daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno (29? a can, cut-rate) and gulped the pinkish alcohol after lining their stomachs with milk. Along the nation's Skid Rows* prosperity was waxing. U.S. bums, in short, never had it so good...
Under Silber's direction, five top seniors met two afternoons a week from 3:30 to 6. By the end of the school year, they had ground five varieties of fruit in a blender, whirled the fruit mixed with pure ethyl alcohol in a centrifuge to separate the solid matter, run the remaining solution through ion exchange columns to remove the salts, and then removed the water to isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough...
...Kansans filed suit against medical laboratories and highway patrolmen for damages in return for small blood samples (less than two teaspoonfuls) taken from them to test their sobriety after highway accidents. Fred Pfizenmaier, 50, of Clay Center, asked $10,000 for his blood, which tested at 185 mg. of alcohol in 100 cc. of blood (150 mg. being the legal intoxication line). But Alva Nichols, 41, of Eldorado, wanted $75,000 for his sample, which tested at a riotously drunk 285 mg. after a three-car crash in which one man was killed. Purpose of the suits: to test Kansas...