Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech was a bitter pill for the millions of British miners, railwaymen, shipyard and textile workers and others who have been clamoring for higher wages. It was bitter, too, for Trades Union Congress leaders. T.U.C. men would not swallow the dose without angry protests when they met Attlee and his cabinet this week; some were already muttering that they would not be able to hold the rank & file in line...
Into a branch of the Tekoku Bank, Japan's largest, last week walked a middle-aged man of distinction wearing the arm band of a Tokyo municipal official. He said he was a city health inspector. Would the manager please summon all his employees for a dose of special anti-dysentery medicine...
...million barrels) in kind from the big private companies and then reselling most of it back to them at scarcity prices, the government was ringing up a fancy profit. Venezuelan Oil Czar Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, in a deal that would give Argentine State Trader Miguel Miranda a dose of his own medicine, was ready to barter 2 million barrels of Venezuela's high-priced oil for Miranda's expensive beef. Oil-starved Argentines thought the medicine not too bitter...
...sick" genes, should avoid marrying people with the same type of bad genes. An apparently healthy man with a schizophrenic grandmother, Szondi claims, is likely to fall in love with a girl whose ancestors suffered from the same kind of insanity. Their children, of course, would inherit a double dose of gene-damnation...
...Orlando, Fla., after two years of experimenting and selective breeding, the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine produced a sturdy strain of houseflies that could survive doses of DDT big enough to scare a beetle. Flies of the 35th generation were as robust as ever after absorbing twice the amount of DDT it takes to kill a normal fly. A fit few were still buzzing after a triple dose. While the bureau saw no danger of a race of superflies, there was still a possibility that such a race might evolve. Lately the bureau...