Word: doping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer has." But in The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last part of it was taken from the action...
Happiness is now within the reach of everyone-everyone, that is, who wants to be a dope. In the British Medical Journal, a distinguished British psychiatrist named G. Tayleur Stockings announced that one capsule of pyrahexyl, a synthetic marijuana-like drug, taken each morning, would make the saddest sack happy...
...smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved him dearly, and his brother Ed, a priest, thought he had "a finer than average" spiritual nature...
Against coronary thrombosis and embolism attacks, doctors used to be fairly helpless; standard treatment was to dope the patient, give him oxygen to relieve the strain on the heart and a drug to relax the blood vessels. In most cases, patients survived one attack, succumbed to a second...
...fine a line between distasteful electioneering and the honest efforts of candidates to get their ideas before the student body. In their attempt to keep election campaigns within reasonable bounds, the Committee faces the possibility of smothering all attempts at popularizing elections. Freshmen forced to rely on the dope sheets posted in the Union will find their knowledge of the candidates inadequate for intelligent voting. If the Council expects to capitalize on the current interest in extra-curricular affairs, it must do everything possible to encourage a close connection between candidate and voter. The problem before the Student Council...