Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strain K12 of E. coli has become adapted to artificial media during transfer for at least 30 years in the laboratory. Recent tests in England showed that after a dose in man much larger that what one would expect from a laboratory accident, it disappeared from the stools within a few days. Its problems of survival are analogous to those of a delicate hothouse plant thrown out to compete with the weeds in a field...
...making the rounds in Chicago these days concerns a trip he made to Harvard in the mid-60s. The idea, concocted by Daley's then-press secretary (since convicted), was to show academic types that the mayor of America's second largest city used more than "des, dems and dose" when he spoke. Daley gave a dull, technical, very formal speech and questions followed--mostly hostile ones,. Suddenly, the stiff, unnatural Richard Daley gave way to the mayor millions of Chicagoans worshipped. Malapropisms and Chicagoese returned--his blunt words chopped through the air. A student charged bossism. The answer...
...cagers received a large dose of some of the best talent in the Ivy League this weekend, getting anesthetized by Princeton Friday night and then swallowing a bitter pill at the Palestra the next night in losing to Penn...
...Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and two possibly unpublished poems by Shelley. Also scattered in the trunk were some 14 letters from Byron, including a complaint that he had picked up another dose of gonorrhea...
...Government income and built-in raises in federal spending . . . Rapped Republicans for failure to cut Pentagon spending after Viet Nam . . . Scorns facile promises about reducing spending ("As long as people talk without being specific, it's easy to talk about big cuts") . . . Calls now for "a large dose of fiscal stimulation" through tax reductions...