Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital insurance plan, such as Blue Cross. For a total annual premium ranging from $38.64 for an individual to $111 for a family (about half paid by the employer, half by the employe), they will get unlimited medical treatment for almost any disorder except acute alcoholism and drug addiction. It will include preventive medicine, with a thorough physical examination at least once a year...
...introspective little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will be advertised on marquees as / Wake Up Dreaming. ¶Bella Donna (Merle Oberon and George Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known...
...much for Orley's son, pale-faced young Franklin Burham, who hated his stepmother. He denounced her and the marijuana ring to the police, from whom last week reporters pried the story. Rosa and Juan, arrested, confessed. Nelson got away. Police felt that they had found the drug's main source in Ecuador...
...Part Cure. The Lexington cure is two-part: 1) withdrawal of the drug, accomplished in three days, during which the patient's agony is mitigated by less harmful dope; 2) the psychological phase -finding out what caused the patient to go on the hop, and removing the cause. If phase No. 2 is not successfully completed, relapse is almost certain (29% of Lexington's present patients are repeaters). Volunteers may leave whenever they choose, but are told that if they leave before six months, they have wasted their time...
Ever since the discovery of anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesia-slow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spine-during labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital...