Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gotta dose of id diff, take a whiff, whacha gonna do, put me in the zoo?" Prescription: "Two years at the front will make a man of you, give you a sense of direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...
...Harvard prank of yesterday is to the prank of today. The finely wrought practical joke of the past had the excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
...single dose of Depo-Provera, injected into a deep muscle, will render a woman infertile for as long as three months. In conventional pill form, the drug is effective for short terms (women take the pills for 20 days, then stop to permit menstruation). In its injection form, the drug's effect is greatly prolonged by the muscle's slow release of the chemical...
Harthill and Cavalaris both insist that neither of them gave Dancer's Image a second dose of Butazolidin, that the "Bute" discovered in his urine after the Derby must have been residue from the Sunday treatment-although horses normally retain Butazolidin in their systems for no more than 72 hours. There was speculation that because Dancer's Image stood in ice (to reduce the ankle swelling), also received steroid and B-complex-vitamin injections, the Butazolidin was "frozen" in his system for an abnormally long time...
...tending to other horses in his string, and Barnard was in charge of Dancer's Image. However, by failing to penalize Harthill and giving only token suspensions to the trainers (they could have been barred for life), the stewards indicated they had no proof 1) that a second dose was administered, or 2) if one was, that Cavalaris or Barnard knew anything about...