Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they would hunt for "the biggest specimens." For twelve super-lice, the club paid one mark. On Sunday morning each member lined up for inspection holding a prize louse between finger and thumb. As the Kommandoführer marched down the ranks, members saluted smartly, thereby snapping the "live dose of itch" in his direction. After endless practice on an old overcoat, the prisoners could hit the Kommandoführer "below the belt" once in three tries...
Dutch doctors have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland's Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart that they would have no part of a medical society that sponsored "deportation of the insane and sick persons and the sterilization of healthy people...
...When Tom was frightened both his face and his stomach lining turned pale. When Tom was depressed, his stomach lining, which usually reddened and increased its secretion of acid after a dose of beef bouillon, hardly responded at all to such feeding. When Tom got mad, his face got red and so did his stomach. (This happened when an officious clinic secretary angered him.) More than any other emotion, anxiety increased the amount of blood in the stomach membrane and the amount of acid secretion. When Tom was anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death...
...tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island. He asked Lillian to visit him, told her he wanted to write her a specially beautiful number. A few days later he took a dose of Paris green and died. In his overcoat pocket was found the manuscript of Come Down, My Evenin' Star...
...thus pictures his newsgatherers, the radio and the press. He realizes or senses enough about how it is done to make certain allowances for the product; but he expects it to be reasonably accurate and "worth reading" or listening to. Often he seems to absorb an immoderate daily dose of it, and double portions (with color) on Sundays; more, certainly, than the human mind is capable of attending to at all thoughtfully; he is consequently sometimes confused, sometimes reduced to stupor; but in general, with some regional exceptions, he feels himself to be-and is-well informed. Well enough...