Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...person in TIME Inc. to see the overseas correspondent before he takes off, and the first to greet him on his return. Having arranged for the multitude of shots required by foreign service, she is likely to hear from correspondents or photographers, wherever they go, requesting this or that drug, a favorite prescription, some needed advice. Not long ago a photographer in a remote part of China cabled frantically for a rush order of medication for his wife, who was momentarily expecting a child...
...than Greenwich Village is of the city of New York. For the most part, the U.S. expatriates collected in the few blocks around the Left Bank cafes Dome and Doupole in Montparnasse-"a weird little land crowded with artists, alcoholics, prostitutes, pimps, poseurs, college boys, tourists, society slummers . . . homosexuals, drug addicts, nymphomaniacs . . . 'dukes' and 'countesses...
...startled half the world's celebrities. She took to narcotics after an automobile accident in which her brother was killed and in which she was so badly hurt that her right leg was shortened by an inch and a half. Then she cured herself of the drug habit, married Edward Beale McLean, a handsome, charming, rich man's son, whose family owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer...
...extremely powerful drug, it may be used in smaller doses than morphine, and its pain-killing effect sometimes lasts eight to ten hours. It even controls the extreme pain of late stages of cancer. The Germans reported that they have used it (intravenously) in amputations, and even in head operations. The patient remains fully conscious and can talk with the surgeon...
...synthetic product, amidone is much cheaper than morphine, which is extracted from opium. Three U.S. drug manufacturers have already applied for permission to produce it, and others are interested. Although distribution can be controlled under present drug laws, U.S. Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger thinks that, before its manufacture is approved, a new law is needed to limit its production; he doesn't like to think of amidone's becoming as common as aspirin...