Word: injection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cynical city like New York, deals are the rule rather than the exception. In ways that some thought naive and others admirable, John Lindsay quickly made it clear that he intended to go by the book, like the good trial lawyer he was before entering Congress. He refused to inject himself as a private manipulator between Quill and the Transit Authority, insisted that the three-man team of mediators be the only go-between. He made it clear that labor would no longer be able to make any sub rosa deals with the mayor...
Flamencos & Astronauts. Even deter gents, capital offenders of eyes and eardrums, have begun to inject a light touch. Lever Brothers' Breeze includes a towel as a premium in its package, and spends much of its precious 60 seconds showing a man flamencoing in the bathroom, snapping the towel about his shoulders and abruptly turning into Jose Greco when the spirit moves him. Presumably his wife is Breezing the dishes, but she never appears...
...just possible that Mrs. Hicks will contrive to inject the racial issue into the mayoral race, by means of the impending crisis over state aid. If Commissioner Kiernan is not appeased by Mrs. Hicks's integration plan, or satisfied with its implementation, he can withdraw state aid (now amounting to 28 per cent of the budget) from the Boston schools. If he approves her proposals, on the other hand, state aid will go up by 25 per cent as an incentive to racial adjustments...
...McGovern is young (22 years old). Though age is in itself no recommendation, his youth, combined with his energy and academic training, ought to inject new ideas into a council which often finds itself precoccupied with its own cliches...
...Test. "The most dramatic effect of this treatment," report Drs. Dole and Nyswander, "has been the disappearance of narcotic hunger." By some biochemical action that still eludes the medical experts, methadone blocks the usual effects of heroin. While on methadone, the doctors continue, the patients can watch addict friends inject heroin, or even take a test injection themselves, and still resist all temptation because they no longer get any kick or euphoria from heroin. This is true even with massive test doses, far more potent than a street "bag." And if a patient should sneak a shot of heroin, this...