Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate symbol of Brooklyn's disinstitutionalization is the virtual disappearance of The Accent, that ebullient glottal goulash of old Dutch, Yiddish, Irish, Italian and perhaps even Mohawk. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...
...uranium to scatter over 18 acres in the impact area. However, there was no cause for alarm, Spain's Nuclear Energy Board quickly assured. Of the 2,000 "potentially exposed" people in the area, 1,800 had been examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from the zone, or of drinking milk from there." Just to be on the safe side, the U.S. dug up 1,500 cubic yards of contaminated topsoil and tomato plants and made plans...
...Beards. The heaviest barrage of all came from Vice President Hubert Humphrey in New Zealand, who took time out from his Asian tour to liken Kennedy's proposal to "a prescription which includes a dose of arsenic," putting "an arsonist in a fire department," and, for good measure, setting "a fox in a chicken coop...
Martin L. Kilson Jr., lecturer on government, asserted that the army is sure to retain control of Ghana. Nkrumah ran "an authoritarian regime with a fair dose of terrorism," Kilson said. He added that the people of Ghana resented Nkrumah's extravagant expenditures to promote the doctrine of Pan-Africanism...
...started in 1962, when hand some, well-to-do Dr. Robert Boehme (rhymes with Mamie) was brought to trial in Tacoma for the attempted mur der of his wife Dorothy. The state charged Boehme with injecting a near-fatal dose of poison into her veins so that he could be free to marry sensu ous Mary Boehme, his great and good friend, who had previously been mar ried to his brother. Throughout the trial, Wife Dorothy spent most of her time flashing smiles of encouragement at Boehme, who was, in due course, acquitted. Three months later, his wife died...