Word: ether
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real business of yesterday was conducted sporadically on the edge of the field by a Doctor who divided his time between examining an astonishing number of injured players and squirting ether at a stray dog. The dog got away, but the injured included all but two or three of the varsity's first team...
...rumors of Negro violence two days later when a waitress was attacked by a man she did not even identify as a Negro. The next day after a nurse reported that a "burly Negro" had burst into St. Vincent's Hospital and gagged her with an ether-soaked rag. Again, radio and TV stations fanned the fever; a WSPD radio program called The People Speak even broadcast angry bleats from citizens who denounced the Blade for covering up a Negro crime wave. More than 1,500 women registered for judo courses at the U.S. Marine Corps station. Toledo...
...Legion of Decency, which evaluates only films,* the committees will be guided by the Pontifical Commission for Movies, Radio and Television. Vatican officials say the committees will screen news broadcasts, drama and other entertainment and "compel decent programs" by expressing "forcefully" to broadcasters the public's disapproval of "ether indecency...
...apparent thinness and elusiveness of the character are reasonable enough in the context of the play. As the curtain rises. Mr. Arcularis lies on the operating table in a surgical amphitheater, surrounded by doctors and nurses and watched by unseen medical students. Then Mr. Arcularis drifts into his ether dream, a strange, cold, ocean voyage which makes up the heart of the play. Finally in the growing chill and the gradual slowing of the ships engines the scene returns to the operating room and the death of Mr. Arcularis...
...they drive the vessel over the waves-and it is suddenly clear that this throb is really the heavy pounding of Mr. Arcularis' heart as it struggles under the surgeon's knife. For the operation is still going on, and the "cruise" is only Mr. Arcularis' ether dream. His "fellow passengers" are really the surgeon and his assistants, with two notable exceptions: Mr. Arcularis' mother and her lover, who have been dead for nearly half a century. In this dreamworld of his own anesthetized devising, Mr. Arcularis falls in love with a pretty shipmate...