Word: fullblown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...methisazone against smallpox. What exercised the virologists most last week was a third chemical, amantadine, an anti-influenza drug that the Food and Drug Administration has licensed, but under strict controls. Trade-named Sym-metrel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., amantadine does not cure a fullblown case of flu. But it may prevent infection if taken before exposure, and mitigate the illness if taken early enough afterward. The trouble with amantadine is that it can produce insomnia, nervousness and lightheadedness, especially in older people, who would then be liable to injury from falls...
...Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye devoted paragraphs to the President's accomplishments. A Japanese-American who lost his right arm fighting for the U.S. in Italy during World War II, Inouye was particularly attuned to the problems of another U.S. minority, the blacks, "whose aspirations have burst fullblown on us after more than 100 years of systematic racist deprivation." Asked Inouye: "Is it any wonder that Negroes find it hard to wait another hundred years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society...
...Prayer. Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sister Corita began teaching at Immaculate Heart in 1946, later received a master's in art history from the University of Southern California. Over the years, her style has progressed from representational to fullblown pop. If her technique is secular, so in many ways is her outlook. "I don't find a great difference between what's religious and not religious," she says. "As a Christian, if you believe God became man, you figure that he meant it seriously, and all we have of this world is very good. If Christ...
...Upper Devonian Period stratum some 300 million years old. How it got there is a mystery that Schweitzer hopes to solve on a future expedition, when he will search for Pseudobornia's still-unknown ancestors. "With such a tremendous stature," he says, "it could not have sprung fullblown from the earth...
...think he is going to be a candidate. We think Romney has a better chance than anyone else." That is not just idle chatter, for Romney's operatives have already taken several seven-league steps along the path to prepare the way for his entry as a fullblown presidential candidate...