Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help but wonder, where does all that opium, which so successfully dulls our pains and paralyzes our will power, where does that same drug which has doped so many other peoples into slavery come from...
...drug, a thousand times as powerful as sulfanilamide, excited members of the American College of Surgeons, who met in Boston for some clinical shoptalk last week. Other topics that absorbed the 3,000 visitors were the old problem of toughening up healing wounds, the vital question of surgery in Britain...
...difficult to stop a fit once it starts. But several drugs, taken over a long period of time, can cut down the number and force of convulsions, even eliminate them entirely. The drugs include the barbiturates, a promising new drug called sodium diphenyl hydantoinate (Dilantin), and the old-fashioned bromides. The last have one great drawback: in indiscriminate doses they cause "intoxication," skin rashes, hallucinations. A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has also brought excellent results, say the doctors, but it is unpleasant to take. In many cases hard exercise cuts down fits. If the fits are caused by brain...
Many other food, milk, drug and cosmetic containers could be made of aluminum...
Gypsy has long dropped easy references to Huxley, Spinoza, "the ancients." "I've got 5,000 books up at my place in the country," she told the press once, "and I've read a great many of them. . . . Proust is a regular drug." Gypsy first crashed Manhattan intellectual circles by discreet fellow-traveling when that was fashionable. She made speeches for trade unions and took off her clothes for the Spanish Republic. More recently she has taken them off for France, Britain and the aluminum drive. Her publicity on these occasions has not been free of a smirk...