Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weight of his Fourteenth Air Force and his Chinese-American Composite Wing into close support of Chinese ground troops which kept the Japs around Hengyang closely invested and even retook two towns near Hengyang which the Japs had grabbed. Chennault's flyers gave the Japs a dose of their own 1941 medicine, by destroying 26 planes at a single field, without loss to themselves...
...squirmed, or Southerners saw red, or New Dealers cheered, Henry Wallace's speech was the first that riveted the delegates' attention. It was blunt, brave, tactless. It easily explained why Henry Wallace was the best-loved and best-hated man in the Stadium. Southerners got a heaping dose of brine in their open wounds as Henry Wallace, no longer ill at ease, rubbed in the word "liberal" eleven times in his brief platform appearance...
...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...
...return Salesman Eric got a heavy dose of Russian sales technique. Workers at the Red October candy factory gave him huge, fancy ribbon-tied boxes of chocolates. Pastry cooks gave him gooey cakes. Soviet bigwigs showered him with teas, dinners, parties, promised him a rare, general's-eye-view of the front. By week's end healthy, energetic Johnston had abandoned his announced firm policy of refusing all drinks "on doctor's orders." At a luncheon on a collective fur farm he drank toasts in vodka, an hour later began yelling "Whoo...
...Astwood has developed a new medical treatment for patients with enlarged goiters caused by over-active thyroid glands. In nine cases treated, all signs of the disease disappeared after a daily dose of the thiouracil medicine for six months...