Word: aspirin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stuck diesel horns ("BAAAAH!") and a familiar howl ("HOW SU-WEET IT is!"), the dancers, cronies, reporters and flacks attacked 500 Ibs. of assorted meats, 30 cans of mock turtle soup, 2,614 one-shot whisky bottles and, as they dragged into Miami next day, 40 boxes of aspirin and alkalines...
After that, he settles down to talk to guests ranging from Bob Hope and California Governor Pat Brown to book-plugging authors and bust-pushing starlets. Like aspirin, the ingredients are all known-story-topping sessions with fellow comedians, the all-out effort from the unknown singer, back talk from Bandleader Skitch Henderson. And, like aspirin, it is fast-acting, pain-relieving, and generally pleasant...
Miles is even bringing change to its basic product, Alka-Seltzer-an efferescent antacid compound of aspirin, bicarb of soda, citric acid and mono-calcium phosphate. It has added to its traditional blue-labeled bottle handy tinfoil packs of Alka-Seltzer that can fit into pocket or purse, is test-marketing ginger-and citrus-flavored versions of the tablet. To convince people that they do not have to drink a gallon of water with Alka-Seltzer, the company is also suggesting in its ads that they adopt the habit of downing Alka-Seltzer "on the rocks," with only a touch...
...Aspirin & Cigarettes. A onetime crusading aide to the late Senator Estes Kefauver, Rand Dixon works hard at appearing more reasonable than he used to be. When he became boss in 1961, he scarcely concealed his distrust of big business, often squabbled with his four commissioners. Frustrated by the fights on high and uneasy about the commission's broad and petty swoops on business, many of the brightest young FTC lawyers quit. Dixon did some hard thinking. He fought the morale problem by pushing pay raises and speeding promotions, began to side with staffers more sympathetic to business; recently...
...last summer's Keeneland sales a colt was auctioned for $170,000. The horse has to be stabled, fed, trained to race; at big Eastern tracks that costs $15 a day. The vet collects $10 or so to give the animal an aspirin, and the blacksmith charges $18.50 for a set of shoes. A man could be out of pocket $100,000 or more by Derby time for his three-year-old. He then pays $100 for the original nomination, $250 to pass the entry box, another $1,250 to start. The winner's purse: about...