Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fatal) after the drug was stopped. Among the untreated 150, no fewer than 15 deaths appeared to be solely or substantially attributable to traveling clots. Like all anticoagulants, phenindione must be given under the strictest medical supervision, usually in a hospital, with frequent laboratory tests to guard against the danger of uncontrollable bleeding, and some accidents or illnesses would preclude treatment. But with these precautions, the British method looks promising...
Public Disgust. The steel strike, said Adlai Stevenson in a speech to the Institute of Life Insurance in Manhattan, marks "the end of an era. Everybody is agreed that this cannot happen again, that the public interest is the paramount interest, and that irresponsible private power is an intolerable danger to our beleaguered society." To keep it from happening again, Stevenson proposed that Congress arm the President with an arsenal of new antistrike weapons, ranging from boards empowered to make settlement recommendations (present law bars Taft-Hartley boards of inquiry from offering recommendations) to compulsory arbitration if the two sides...
...labor issues by any political figure." Stevenson, said Lawrence, had voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President Eisenhower's stern admonition before he departed for Asia that "America needs a settlement now," despite the danger than an aroused public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display of stubborn disregard for the public interest. McDonald airily demanded that the steel industry return to company-by-company...
...after the gilded sign ("Welcome home, star!") came down from the Italiano door, other acting jobs came slowly. Anne kept busy peddling chocolate-covered cherries in drugstores and giving English lessons to Peruvian Singer Yma Sumac. Then she got a running part in the TV version of The Goldbergs. Danger, Suspense, and other CBS shows began to use "Anne Marno," as she then called herself. Her acting reputation grew. In his files, TV Director Franklin Schaffner still keeps a card for Anne Marno with the coded notation: CDXX. Translation: can play comedy, or drama, is excellent actress...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...