Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity baseball team, trouble never seems to come in one big dose. One day the hitting may be bad, while another day the fielding may be lax. Still, the pitching holds steady. Yesterday, both the hitting and the fielding were miserable, but nevertheless the Crimson wobbled to a 4-2 victory over Brown...
...regime's headaches have economic as well as political roots. In recent weeks Aramburu has given Argentina an unpalatable dose of austerity to try to clear up the economic mess inherited from Peron. The country's best-known economist, U.N. Official Raul Prebisch, reported that government interference under Peron had crippled economic development and kept the country's average per capita income almost stationary for ten years. He recommended stripping off many controls, e.g., an artificially high peso exchange rate, and taking anti-inflationary fiscal measures. A healthy if painful readjustment is taking place...
...Albert Hoffman was doing a routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow, he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception of time and space, and the short bicycle ride seemed like 5,000 miles. "I had multicolored visions and hallucinations," he says, "but worst...
...predict what his measurements will be when he is 18. The same formula applies to girls' dimensions, except that weight and height should be calculated at the age of 18 months instead of two years. ¶ U.S. children will continue to get Salk polio vaccine in three doses, 33 experts (among them: Dr. Jonas Salk. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele) decided unanimously in Washington. Reason: shots one and two supply immunization for undetermined periods, and "we want to take advantage of the protection provided by the third dose." The representatives also decided that the supply of Salk vaccine...
Flesh touched flesh, and the deed at last was done (see cut). "They won't get any propaganda out of that one," said Dulles when he saw the prints. "I look as if I'd swallowed a dose of castor...