Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coherent novel, selecting being the tricky business that it is, there are other defects for which no such excuse can be offered. The language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated...
...sentenced to five years in prison, wailed that despite his job, he simply had not been much of a tax expert. BIR Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant resigned angrily after Witness Abraham Teitelbaum said he had been told Oliphant was a member of a tax shakedown gang. Former New York Alcohol Tax Unit Supervisor James B. E. Olson popped up on the payroll of tax-troubled companies. Massachusetts Collector Denis Delaney was convicted of bribery, served nine months. St. Louis Collector James Finnegan* had a nice way of obtaining legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government, later went...
...freely given, so as to produce intoxication, if possible." No prescription was ever more popular in the West. Yet its efficacy has never been checked by medical research. Last week famed Venomologist Herbert L. Stahnke of Arizona State College announced that the imposingly named Committee on Problems of Alcohol, Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, had given him $2,000 to find out. Stahnke quickly got several offers from volunteers to serve as human guinea pigs, but he replied loftily that he will work with rats...
...Crusaders against alcoholism (some teetotalers, some devotees of moderate drinking) gathered in Istanbul, sadly concluded that with few exceptions, such as Italy and India, most of the world's nations are getting wetter. Chief offenders: France (accused of boosting alcohol consumption in her African colonies by dumping surplus wines and brandy there) and the U.S., with a 44% increase in alcoholism in 13 years, and a rise in beer consumption from 8 to 16½ gallons a year per capita since...
...matings of guinea pigs where the female was "conditioned" by alcohol, 90% of the conceptions resulted in abnormalities, reported Dr. Dora Papara Nicholson of George Washington University. The preliminary findings, Dr. Nicholson believes, support her observations that abnormal births in humans are most frequent at the extremes of the social scale, where the most alcohol is consumed...