Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy sweat. When he has lost a game, or drawn one he should have won, sleep escapes him: "I go over and over it in my mind, searching for what went wrong. If I find it, I stay awake kicking myself. If I don't find it, the insomnia's even worse...
...International Congress of Chest Diseases in Rio de Janeiro, may make a chubby draftee look more soldierly, but it may also damage his health. Rigid military posture prevents a man from using his lungs properly. And faulty breathing can cause discomfort over the heart, upset digestion, bring on insomnia and depression. A moderate paunch. Dr. Gordon said, might better be left to its own devices. Military or not, "the important asset of the firm, rounded abdomen is its capacity to support the diaphragm within the effective range of expiration and inspiration...
...last year's $15.4 million. Earnings per share rose from 43? to $3.12. Schering was the second company to put cortisone on the market, has marketed new sulfa and penicillin products, holds a prominent place in the antihistamine field, has introduced several important new drugs, including "Dormison" (for insomnia), and "Prantal" (for peptic ulcers...
...religious persecution and its fame spread. A weary soldier fighting against Napoleon at Waterloo wrote in his diary: "When I [could] take some nourishment, I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness." Doctors wrote in to say that they found Guinness good for everything from "insomnia, neurasthenia, debility and constipation" to an "effective aid for nursing mothers." Guinness tried to get stout admitted into the U.S. during Prohibition as a medicine, but the Treasury Department coldly said...
...hard work, every now and then, results in insomnia. Says Arthur Godfrey, who is an enthusiastic Stanton admirer: "We each have a phone beside our beds. When he can't sleep, or I can't, one calls the other. We ring once and hang up-that's the signal. If the other's awake, he calls back and says, 'What the hell are you doing...