Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This double dose of soothing syrup is intended to lull certain suspicions which France has about its Communist Party. A Frenchman who considers joining it or following it asks himself whether it is a French party, an international party or a Russian party. Charles de Gaulle engraved this doubt on French minds when he gave it as a reason for refusing to give the Communists the ministries of Foreign Affairs, War or Interior (police). The French remember, too, the Communist record between the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and the German attack on Russia. Thorez himself symbolized that record by deserting...
...Washington, the Commission on Neurotropic Virus Diseases reported that Army doctors first isolated the virus in Hawaii, developed the new vaccine in the U.S. from an extract taken from the brains of mice infected with the virus. An immunizing dose is extremely small: extract from the brain of a single mouse supplies 10,000 doses...
...London's Euston and King's Cross Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...
After I was run out of Guatemala, I met two other fellows, named, I believe, Harpo and Chico. After considerable bickering, they convinced me that America, softened up by an excess of rationing, could be persuaded to swallow another dose of Casablanca-this one to be called A Night in Casablanca...
...guinea pig was a volunteer-Fred Learned, onetime farm editor, now an employe of the American Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...