Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most fetid slums. Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative for her recurrent diarrhea or a dose of the latest herbal AIDS "cure." But even those she considers luxuries. "We are dying because we don't have medicines," she says. "I heard that there are new treatments. But I cannot afford them...
...perspective that I entered the Old Library. To my great surprise, the Leverett production of "Hair" was absolutely spellbinding. I left humming, clapping and feeling that being young in the '90s is not so different from thirty years ago. Dare I say it? The show gave me a good dose of positive, cathartic youth angst. The cast was amazingly professional, something I had not ever associated with campus theater...
This spring, the members of the Harvard football team that have already taken a class in Foreign Cultures will get a second dose...
...Luther Schultz, whose mother, Eda Schultz Charlton, received a dose of radiation 43 times the anount an average person absorbs in a lifetime in a 1945 U.S. government experiment. Mrs. Charlton lived 38 years after she was injected...
Almost sixty-five years ago, a North American composer introduced a heavy dose of "fun" into popular music, with the intention of lifting the spirits and pulses of a Depressionera audience. The composer was Leroy Anderson, and by blending catchy melodies with upbeat rhythms, he produced music that took the listeners' minds off of their worries. The fanciful gems of "The Syncopated Clock" or "The Bugler's Holiday" were by no means meditative or emotionally taxing; these light and seemingly simple pieces aimed to induce laughter and dancing rather than anguish and contemplation...