Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...
Antidote. In Kobe, Japan, when Pickpocket Yoshio Abe complained of a stomachache, police gave him a dose of castor oil, recovered the stolen watch he had swallowed...
What was needed now, the President said, was to pump new life into the sagging economy with a series of Fair Deal measures to increase minimum wages, broaden social security, raise farm price supports through the Brannan plan. In essence, his program was a moderate dose of the old New Deal mixture: deficit financing, some brave whistling, some Government pump-priming...
When the cancer has had time to "take," the mouse is injected with a just-under-killing dose of the chemical to be tested. After a week or so, a girl kills the mouse by crushing its fragile skull. Then she slits open its belly skin and measures the cancer, which is usually by this time a grey-pink, rounded mass as big as a thumbnail. If the tumor has disappeared or has not grown as much as expected, the chemical is listed as promising enough for further testing...
...Dime-a-Dose. In Madison, Tenn., Spray-a-Tan, Inc. started production of a coin-operated machine, invented by William H. Hayes and William B. Jakes Jr., designed to take the sand and rubbing out of suntan oiling. For a dime, a sunbather can step up to an aluminum cabinet (see cut) and spray himself with oil for 60 seconds. The price: $200 a machine and $7 a gallon...