Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duds. It's a hard one to prove. Actress Hepburn not only looks her limpid best from first to last; she also does some snazzy dancing (she is better solo than with Astaire), and even sings effectively in a sort of absinthetic Sprechstimme with a touch of wood alcohol in the low notes...
...Using injections of absolute alcohol near the spine, Dr. William S. Derrick has successfully cut the pain of 82 of 87 cancer patients at the University of Texas' M. D. Anderson Hospital. By blocking a section of the sensory nerve running from the affected part of the body to the brain -a tested technique-the injections relieve pain for up to six months, can easily be given again if the nerve returns to life. Advantage over narcotics: the injection is non-habit-forming, does not wear off quickly. Advantage over surgery sometimes performed to kill pain by cutting...
...Court upheld the right of law-enforcement authorities to use as evidence a blood sample taken from an unconscious defendant. The appeal arose from the case of a trucker who was convicted of drunken driving on testimony that a blood sample taken from him after an accident tested .17% alcohol. The court decided that the defendant's rights had not been violated so long as the blood sample was removed "under the protective eye of a physician...
...inhabitants of the tight little island, located in the Outer Hebrides 100 miles from the English mainland and "To the West, there is nothing--but America," would agree with Harry Stack Sullivan, famous American psychiatrist. Sullivan once said about alcohol, "I do not see how mankind could exist without this most marvelous of chemical compounds." One native echoes him, "It is a well-known medical fact that some men are born two drinks below normal...
...series drew to a close, Mathis' exposé was drawing three letters of protest for every letter of praise. Most influential critic of the series was the Rev. Texas Gulp, Baptist minister and peripatetic protagonist of the state's leading prohibitionist society, Dallas' Texas Alcohol Narcotics Education, Inc. Culp said that he would demand space in the Post to present the dry side of the case; critics of the series also insisted that the exposé must have been bootlegged into the paper without being checked by the publisher. Publisher of the Post: Oveta Culp Hobby, first...