Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time for Treatment. "Overt alcoholism," the last good chance for recovery, spans roughly 5.9 years. The patient becomes a liquor hoarder, buys large quantities, worries whether he has enough to last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally...
Both he and Sutherland cited the case of Lanza vs. U.S., 1922, where the Supreme Court allowed both a state and Federal trial of men convicted of producing and selling liquor. Fisher, however, felt that this was a unique case...
Harder South. Treatment of Asians varies with the geographical latitudes and gets harder farther south. In Nyasaland almost no economic restrictions are placed upon the Asians, but in Southern Rhodesia a Hindu may not buy liquor without a special permit. A Moslem attorney from Nyasaland, working on a case in the capital of Southern Rhodesia, suddenly found that he could not use the washroom or take the elevator. In Dar es Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union...
Such human problems as the effects of fallout on pregnancy and the aftereffects of hard liquor were considered last week by researchers at the American Chemical Society meetings in Boston. Items...
...Congeners. Experts have long known that some of the unpleasant results of drinking hard liquor are caused by infinitesimal amounts of contaminants technically known as "congeners." The hangover victim who argued, "It isn't the alcohol, it's the congeners," was largely right, but chemists did not know which congeners were to blame. A new technique for separating minute amounts of congeners, said Consultant Robert Carroll, working with Connecticut's Perkin-Elmer Corp., has made it possible to identify eight congeners already, with more to come. Definitely harmful among those identified are acetaldehyde and isoamyl alcohol...