Word: dose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Physician Travell easily diagnosed the ailment as a respiratory infection caused by what she called "the two-days' virus." Fearful that the President's back injury would weaken his resistance, she gave her patient an oral dose of tetracycline (aureomycin under another name), a whopping intramuscular shot of penicillin (1.2 million units, or at least three times what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high...
...Sunday Dose. But Berry knew what he was about. "Sunday papers have become all views and no news," he said. Though tradition forced it to carry the interminably serialized memoirs of the great and near great that are a staple of British weekend reading, Berry insisted on brevity elsewhere. Last week's issue packed 19 stones on Page One, more than any of its competitors. Editorials are equally spare-ten bite-sized specimens-in refreshing contrast to the uncorseted "leaders" of some other Sunday papers...
More important, Berry's paper has a generous Sabbath dose of straight news-to the amazement of Fleet Street, which has long been satisfied that little happens on Saturday. This month, after a gunman shot three London bobbies and then handed the story-by telephone-to the Sunday Express, the Sunday Telegraph collected information from eyewitnesses and Scotland Yard, stitched a story that made the Express's account (1 TRAP WANTED MAN ON THE TELEPHONE) sound like a Beaverbrook promotion...
...space will be detected many hundred miles away, and its course will be calculated. A Nike Zeus rocket will rise from the island to meet the Atlas far above the atmosphere. Neither the invading nor the defending rocket will carry genuine nuclear warheads (no one on Kwajalein wants a dose of peacetime fallout), but the Nike Zeus will be credited with a theoretical kill if it comes within lethal distance of the invader...
Sinking lower and lower, Watanabe finally meets a back novelist in a bar. He overhears a writer asking where to buy sleeping pills, and offers the stranger an unopened bottle of his own. To die slowly is difficult and painful for Watanabe, but the sudden death of an over-dose is impossible...