Word: dose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family on state disability payments (he has been blind since birth), odd jobs, and guitar playing with local groups, he was "discovered" in the early '60's. He toured alone at first, but teamed up in 1964 with his son Merle who at 22 is now showing a dose of his father's guitar-playing brilliance and an extraordinary talent with the banjo as well...
...Hampshire and the disaster in Florida, it's clear that the senator's efforts to win as a front-runner have failed. He's now starting over again, this time as an underdog, and it's possible that the Florida results will give him the extra--even though bitter--dose of orange juice be needs as he makes his new start...
...begin with, the presence of police set a bitter tone for the evening. A dose burly officer flanked the usher at the entrance of the Music Hall, eyeing suspicious types and confiscating unspeakable amounts of liquor. Smiling benignly at the pile of contraband, one officer quipped, "What do you kids want to bring booze to a wake for? This is the Grateful Dead, don't you know?" Very strange...
Exobiologists have suggested a number of scenarios for the survival of Martian life. Sagan, for instance, theorizes that Mars may now be experiencing an ice age. As he explains it, the planet's northern hemisphere does not now receive the maximum possible dose of solar radiation because the Martian north pole is tilted toward the sun only when the planet is farthest from it. Yet in about 10,000 to 12,000 years, because of the slow precession of Mars (a wobbling of the planet as it rotates through space), the north pole will be tilted so that it receives...
...Glen Leymaster, director of undergraduate education for the A.M.A. "It surfaces in the form of anti-intellectualism. Medical schools today need more science, not less." U.C.L.A.'s Dr. William Longmire Jr. shares that concern. Says he: "There comes a time when a doctor has to decide whether the dose of digitalis is five point zero or zero point five. He cannot be a judge then. He has to be a scientist...