Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would not buy anything heavier than Victor Herbert in so large a dose. But after the first preview, Studio Boss Dore Schary sent Lanza hampers of fruit, flowers and champagne...
Hearst newspaper editors give no news more loving care than the "special" stories about the Hearst family circle which come out of Los Angeles. One day this week, Hearst editors had their hands full finding space for an unexpected double dose of such "must gos." In the New York Journal-American, one long story told about the award of a Navy gold medal to Publisher Hearst-"to accompany the Distinguished Public Service Award...presented to him in March...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and, thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of re-education of its own (TIME, June...
...having a difficult labor. She thought she was going to die and asked for a Caesarean operation in the hope that her child, at least, might be saved. The doctor attending her refused. But Jesse Bennett was a physician himself. He put his wife to sleep with a whopping dose of laudanum. She lay on planks set across two barrels. One sweep of the knife laid open the abdomen and soon a baby girl was extracted. Before he closed the incision, Dr. Bennett removed both ovaries, remarking that he "would not be subjected to such an ordeal again...
...students, the entire enrollment, in Italian II got a full dose of Latin temperament when they showed up for their final exam yesterday morning...