Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more parents were in the habit of taking their offspring over their knee and applying a generous dose of strap oil, we'd all be better," wrote Mrs. T. Scholz. "My three teen-age girls have felt the beneficial sting since way back...
Harry Truman made a determined personal effort to get what he wanted. He called the Committee's Democrats to the White House for a dose of the sort of persuasion Franklin Roosevelt used to exert. President Truman seemed resentful. He said the Senate had let him down. He expected that the House would not do the same. He stood pat on his program. He was no longer the "good old Harry" who liked to visit the Hill and chum with his old cronies. He was aggressively Mr. President...
Sometimes, in Southern California, the fleas get so bad that people can't enjoy the wonderful, dry weather. Casting about for a remedy, Santa Barbara's Dr. Howard L. Eder decided to dose his patients with thiamin chloride (vitamin BI)-a treatment which had proved successful in repelling mosquitoes...
...Doctors generally believe that the barbiturates are a safe way of soothing a patient, if the patient follows orders-since the deadly dose is some 15 times the sleeping dose. They consider most "accidental" barbiturate deaths as suicide, and point out that people who really want to commit suicide could do it almost as easily with too much aspirin or by eating a lot of toothpaste-certain kinds...
...neurotic 49-year-old lawyer, formerly a very heavy drinker, who originally took the drug on a doctor's prescription for an "all-gone feeling." He found that "the effect of the drug was so stimulating that he gave up the use of alcohol. . . ." From a starting dose of a twenty-fifth of a gram a day, he worked up to one-quarter of a gram a day in five years, at the end of which he had to go to several doctors in order to get enough prescriptions. He was by then taking enough to kill most people...