Word: coughed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...East Indies (now Indonesia) and to England itself. In 1839, England imported some 100,000 lbs. of Indian opium, and by 1840 it was around 200,000 lbs. There was only some social disapproval. In fact, opium, in the form of laudanum, was in widespread use, and cough mixtures including a little of it could be bought over the counter in England as late as the 1950s.The Chinese government’s own attitude seemed ambivalent. Even in the later 1830s, the emperor’s advisers were divided between enforcing prohibition and legalizing, regulating, and taxing opium imports. Only...
...protagonist is a defense attorney who worries less about guilt and innocence than about exploiting technicalities and getting paid. Mickey Haller makes his living threading the loopholes of a tattered justice system, setting marijuana growers and fraud artists free—as long as the perpetrators can cough up the thousand-dollar fees...
...secret domestic spying program-and already the Justice Department is balking at turning over its legal opinions justifying the electronic surveillance of Americans without a court warrant. But there's a bigger problem committee chairman Arlen Specter and the panel's other members face than simply getting Justice to cough up documents. Exactly how should the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires the Justice Department to obtain a warrant from a special FISA court before wiretapping anyone in the U.S., be updated to give the NSA more flexibility in spying on suspected terrorists...
...guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians discourage the use of over-the-counter cough syrups, saying they do little to relieve cold-related coughs. The doctors recommend taking an antihistamine instead...
...bottle price tag?and seven years later sold it to Bacardi for more than $2 billion; in San Diego, California. In the 1970s, Frank sensed an unquenched niche in the rambunctious U.S. college-student market and began importing the near-unknown German liqueur Jagermeister, sometimes compared to cough syrup. With the help of a cadre of pretty "Jagerettes," who poured free shots in bars, the brand soared in sales from some 500 cases in 1974 to more than 2 million last year...