Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butler's 26 years in Parliament, and topped Gaitskell's Philippic of the week before. The House rejected the censure motion (329-261). Yet a forensic victory in the Commons was only a beginning, and Rab Butler knew it. He still has to prove that his new dose of austerity will work in practice. The first signs were not encouraging: at week's end, British workers filed demands for pay increases which, if granted, would give the inflationary spiral another upward twist. The one hopeful sign was that the drain of British dollar reserves in October...
...temperature, pulse (low 70s) and blood pressure (132 over 80) are normal, and his circulation is excellent. His spirits and morale are good, his mind alert. In order to keep him "from bubbling over and to protect his heart from his overactive brain," he is given a small dose of sedatives when he awakens each morning. No complications have appeared, and they are now unlikely-but not impossible...
...rabidly so Prospects. Clearing away the rubble of the shattered Perón regime is only the beginning. Problems are mainly political; economic ailments nagged the country under Peron. but Argentina is a basically rich country with wonderfully fertile soil probably needs little economic doctoring beyond a healthy dose of freedom. Toughest task is likely to be dealing with the sullen labor-confederation members who won substantial gains under Peron and hated...
...like mankind," said one of his characters gloomily. "I don't even like the poor for whom, after all, I am going to fight." As an idealist, he was from the first at odds with the professional Communists. When Trotsky complained that his individualistic heroes needed "a good dose of Marxism," Malraux bristled, retorted that he was not concerned with collective action, but with the tragic men caught up in the stress of revolution...
...megaton bomb (equivalent in energy to 10 million tons of TNT), says Libby, creates 1,100 Ibs. of radioactive fission products. Airborne for one day and then spread evenly over an area of 100,000 square miles, it would give each unsheltered person a dose of 67 roentgens per day. This is not far from the strength of the "snow" that fell on the Marshall Islanders.* They survived because they were evacuated promptly and cared for well, but as Libby remarks in an understatement, evacuation of 100,000 square miles (more than twice the size of New York State...