Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clusters generally hit proud, hard-driving individuals who work under substantial self-imposed stress. Graham has found that most cluster sufferers are similar in appearance, with prominent masculine features and reddened, grainy, deeply furrowed skin. Dilation of blood vessels is also apparently present in clusters. Therefore liquor or a dose of any drug that expands vessels, like nitroglycerin, can trigger or worsen an attack...
...Honolulu dermatologist. His prescription: a quarter-teaspoon of meat tenderizer dissolved in a teaspoon or two of water and rubbed into the skin around the bite. Meat tenderizer, Arnold explains, is rich in papain, a protein-dissolving enzyme, which breaks down the venom. Arnold says that a dose of meat tenderizer will stop the pain of most insect stings in seconds if applied immediately...
...wants to supply every solider with a chamber pot) falls victim to a series of disasters that are all more-or-less the result of his young son's constipation. Follavoine, the contractor, is blessed with a wife. Julie, totally preoccupied with curing her son's problem with a dose of mineral oil, which the boy refuses to take. She manages, with her son's help, to destroy Follavoine's business with M. Chouilloux, the war ministry representative who comes to lunch. Looked at in a serious light, the plot alternates between the ridiculous and the grotesque. But by using...
Needless to say, I treasure your words, but do not jeopardize your credibility or mine by making me sound too good. I have, as you know, a generous measure of faults, weaknesses and errors. As De Gaulle once said: "Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." I confess to all the faults De Gaulle describes. I only hope they can be turned to worthwhile ends...
...this year a liberal dose of masochism has made the debates even livelier. Things were supposed to be different when the CCA-endorsed ticket won a majority of the Council seats in November and elected Barbara Ackermann as Mayor. However, as this week's meetings demonstrate, all is not well in the liberal camp...