Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food was present in large quantities, lobster and chicken salad being featured at noon and chicken and beef pies in the evening. All this mixed with impressive amounts of alcohol made the day a gastronomical success, if nothing else...
...face on things"] IN THE LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES' PAMPHLET ON WHICH YOU REPORT [MAY 27] IS CORRECT, AND IS TAKEN FROM MY BOOK "BEYOND ANXIETY," I MUST POINT OUT THAT IT IS SET IN THE CONTEXT OF A CHAPTER WHICH WARNS AGAINST THE DANGERS BOTH OF ALCOHOLISM AND OF ESCAPE FROM INNER PROBLEMS BY THE USE OF ALCOHOL...
Warning to users of tranquilizing drugs: they should not be taken with alcohol. At San Francisco's Langley Porter Clinic three University of California researchers gave about four jiggers of bourbon each to 18 alcoholics, told them to lie down on a surgical table. Most subjects complied, made no fuss. A week later they got the whisky with the tranquilizer chlorpromazine: some lay down on the table, promptly went to sleep and snored loudly; others became loud and boisterous; some were "gay and irresponsible"; most had slurred speech. By blood tests, the researchers found that the drug...
Tests on medical students with chlorpromazine, meprobamate (Miltown), reserpine and Phenergan (an antihistamine) coupled with alcohol produced still more bizarre effects. The less hardened drinkers went in for such high jinks as pushing each other into showers...
...Kirsten Flagstad. But the star of the occasion was Rodzinski himself. Perched on a high stool in the pit, he mimed every emotion, sprang up repeatedly to sustain notes with sure baton sweeps. During breaks in the four-hour, 50-minute evening he changed dripping shirts, gave himself an alcohol rub, gulped