Word: depress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more potential value than the dollars needed to buy a future on them. More important, commodity prices are being rocketed upward by a huge increase in worldwide demand for U.S. farm products. "Our markets are coming out of the age of surpluses," which always had a potential to depress prices, says CBT Pit Trader Richard H. Mayer...
...Georges Mathé, a leading cancer researcher at the Paul Brousse Hospital at Villejuif, near Paris, has been using BCG since 1964. He administers it as part of a double-barreled approach to treating patients with acute lymphoid leukemia, a cancer of the blood-forming tissues that tends to further depress and obliterate the patient's already weakened immune responses. Mathé begins with chemotherapy, using cell-destroying drugs that kill rapidly proliferating cells (and thus destroy cancer cells more quickly than normal ones) to reduce the size of cancers from billions of cells to 100,000 or so. Then he uses...
...combination can be catastrophic. Methaqualone and alcohol are synergistic: one multiplies the effects of the other. Taken together, they can depress the respiratory center and stop breathing; they may also slow the reflexes in the back of the throat, so that if a user vomits (which may happen after a large dose of methaqualone), he can choke...
...section that takes place not long before Reuben Sledge goes down into The City. Life gradually drags him into total withdrawal: he spends day after day festering alone in bed, drawing into himself, utterly isolated in a concrete cellar room. He reads a lot of books: they depress him, increase his loneliness. He stops reading, and as he struggles to hang on to his sanity he becomes excruciatingly familiar with every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy on the surface...
...becoming really interested in journalism. We are going to show our contemporaries that we are at least as bright as they are, and perhaps.... During the process we discover to our amazement that our sentences are now taking shape all by themselves and that the typewriter keys seem to depress themselves almost without manual manipulation. We have arrived! We are now Editors! But there are many different kinds of editors. Some are poor editors; some are good editors; some are very good editors; and some have a talent for the business. But even the talented came up the hard...