Word: colics
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...stood at only 191.05 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, and many an economist-along with Russia's Kremlin-loudly predicted that the U.S. faced an "inevitable" postwar depression. The bull did go off his feed a bit in 1949, but it was only a mild case of colic. He kept growing and growing, appeared on the cover again in June 1950, as U.S. business kept on expanding to meet the needs of an exploding population...
...Pediatrics, started the ruckus over whisky when he told a Washington medical meeting that 15 drops make an acceptable sedative for a sleepless child.* Other pediatricians doubted that so minute a dose would have any detectable effect, though some said they might give it to a baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe 'toddies for toddlers,' " he intoned from the pulpit. "To give [alcohol] to children...
...never shown.) So Pippin lived out her years on the wooded acres of Seaton Hackney Farm-alert, lovely, always a pleasure to watch working in harness. Last week, at 36 (the equivalent of more than 100 years in a human), she developed a serious case of colic. Reluctantly, the Moores made the final decision to put her down...
Symphony, he paces about his penthouse with lips clamped in the expression of the well-known bust in the music room; but somehow, with his fluttery dimples and impetuous curls, he looks rather more like a pink plastic dolly with built-in colic...
...stubbornest disorders to treat is painter's colic-lead poisoning. Two Alabama researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that they have treated 19 cases easily and successfully with a trick salt called disodium calcium versenate. Lead replaces the calcium and is expelled in the urine...