Word: darked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of his life, Bernard Lamotte has wandered over those same streets and alleys searching for mood and color, sometimes in the company of friendly flics, who took him along on evening patrols through the dark corners of Paris...
...would be a good idea, they said, for civilian doctors to get blood banks organized and join in the civil defense program. Light clothes are best to wear for an atomic bombing (Hiroshima victims proved that dark clothes increase the chances of fatal burns). If death does not come quickly, "the patient may become extremely emaciated." After that he may die, but "emaciation" sounds more cheerful than "atomic death...
...human animal prides himself on using his head, but he pays a terrible penalty in headaches. Headaches are one of man's commonest and most persistent ailments. One of the worst forms-migraine -is a sick headache that recurs at regular intervals. Symptoms may include dark spots before the eyes, vomiting, lack of feeling in hands and legs. The trouble is, say the experts, people who least deserve migraine headaches are most apt to get them...
...best treatment? The two doctors recommended injections of ergotamine tartrate as soon as the headache starts. If this fails, try codeine. Also helpful: rest in bed in a quiet, dark room; an ice bag; sympathy from physician, family and friends. For long-range treatment, the migraine sufferer should work and plan less, rest and exercise more. Dr. Wolff has another treatment for headaches of the migraine type: standing on the head.* The upside-down position, he believes, causes a "constriction reflex" that eases the swelling in the arteries...
Victory. In advertisements, Lustron Corp.'s $8,000 five-room steel-enamel house looked bright enough. But until last week the prospects of producing many looked dark indeed. The steelmen who run the Department of Commerce's voluntary allocations had turned thumbs down on prefabricated housing ("not successful"). Last week, after intervention by Housing Administrator Raymond Foley and Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, the committee handed out 58,000 tons of steel to prefabs. To Lustron (which got all but 10,000 tons of the allocation), that meant 4,800 houses...