Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directions. Increasingly petulant of late, and bothered by sieges of insomnia, Nehru has been secretly quarreling with Cabinet and party colleagues. The strict cold war neutrality to which he pledged India has gradually been changing into a program to undermine such Western undertakings as the Manila pact and to persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME...
...79th year, Konrad Adenauer, Der Alte of West Germany, was not as well as he looked: he had come back from the Brussels Conference plagued with insomnia, able to sleep only under doses of drugs. At Brussels, after the meeting ended, he had seen Mendès-France for an hour. Every word had hurt. EDC was dead. Mendès said. "But my French friends tell me that EDC has a chance in the National Assembly," said Adenauer. "They lied to you " Mendès had replied curtly...
Doctors have usually been content to leave the subject of sleep to the poets, but now they are being forced to give it increasing attention because, in high-speed modern society, insomnia is leading to an alarming dependence on drugs...
...because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught to relax and not to lie awake worrying about when he will get to sleep...
...temporarily banish fatigue, and seem to sharpen the perceptions. That is why, in The Cruel Sea, the ship's surgeon gave them to Captain Ericson after days & nights on the bridge. But, as the doctor warned him then, the aftereffects are severe. The FDA lists increased fatigue and insomnia, and maybe aggressiveness, suicidal tendencies or collapse...