Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reserpine is a "tranquilizing agent" used to calm patients suffering manic disorders, schizoid conditions, alcohol and drug addiction, and chronic psychoses. It has also been found effective in temporaily reducing high blood pressure...
Menacing Pause. Bulganin tried to retrieve the situation with an urbane, jolly-fellow speech regretting that they had not seen all they wanted because he and Khrushchev were "slaves of protocol." But when Bulganin sat down, Khrushchev lumbered to his feet and, flushed with anger and alcohol, launched into an hour's tirade...
...Annapolis. Of the 18 officer oarsmen (a second-string boatload also got orders to crew duty), nine had married, and five were already fathers: the old days of monastic concentration on the job at hand were gone for good. Hands had gone soft. Even after bathing them in alcohol and alum, some of the crewmen could not be sure their palms would stand the wear...
...mystery. After his death in Paris from nephritis in 1792, the body of the Scot who fathered the U.S. Navy was prepared for shipment to the U.S. The limbs were encased in tinfoil; the body was wrapped in a shroud and then was placed in a sealed, straw-and alcohol-filled lead casket. But the U.S. frugally refused to pay the freight. Hero Jones was unceremoniously buried in Paris' obscure St. Louis Cemetery, where he lay undisturbed, despite sporadic efforts over 113 years to find his body...
Well preserved by the alcohol,* Jones's body was autopsied by Paris Pathologist André Victor Cornil, who snipped bits of tissue from the heart, lungs, spleen and kidneys. The lungs showed evidence of pneumonia and possibly TB, from which Jones was known to have suffered. The kidney tissue showed the effects of nephritis, from which the great captain had died. Pathologist Cornil had the kidney slides photographed; the pictures were sent to the U.S. Congress along with Ambassador Porter's report...