Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls came on the line later with some advice that sounded more official than wifely. Said Pat White to her husband: "Now have a drink of water." White answered: "Roger. Standing by for a drink of water." Pat McDivitt told Jim, "Disconnect your headset communications at the neck ring from now on at the start of your sleep period. No static on that. Did you get the message to disconnect your headset?" McDivitt came in loud, clear and obedient: "I sure...
Rough Road. Despite the rebound, Britain's economy faces a rough road this summer. British tourists will soon begin their annual exodus abroad, cut ting into Britain's reserves as they eat and drink their way across the Conti nent. A bigger worry to Britain's money managers, however, is the extent to which the country's reserves will be drained by its staunchest foreign allies in the monetary battles-the nations of the sterling area...
What are these beneficial uses? Most people who take a drink or two before dinner, and even many of those who take three or four at a noisy cocktail party, know some of the basic facts. Alcohol is a relaxant (it appears to act as a stimulant only because it masks fatigue); and because it relaxes first the "most civilized" functions of the brain, it tends to banish worry. It makes people more tolerant of each other's foibles. It loosens tongues, and may dissolve some legal and moral restraints. But Dr. Chafetz is chary of the widely held...
...just as critical of his own profession. He regards as shameful the tendency to deny patients the relaxing and literally heart-warming effects of their accustomed drink. Equally shameful, he believes, is the average physician's refusal to use liquor as a medicine. It is, he asserts, not only the oldest of medicines but one of the most effective. It was the first and for long the only useful anesthetic. Alcohol is good in many cases of high blood pressure and heart disease, because it relieves the pain of angina and makes a low-salt diet more palatable. Because...
Chafetz goes so far as to suggest that alcohol-in suitable dosage, of course -may be as good for children as for adults. He recommends abolishing age limits and allowing teen-agers to drink publicly, so as to get rid of furtiveness...