Word: naming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pharmacologists also complain about the way doctors write their prescriptions. "Writing prescriptions in Latin is an obsolete affectation, conducive to misunderstanding and error," they say. With rare exceptions, the medicine bottle should be labeled with the name of the drug. "The obsolete apothecary system of grains, ounces and drachms is dangerous and unnecessary. The ancient symbols for ounce and drachm are nearly alike, and fatal over doses have resulted. The abbreviation gr. (meaning grain, 60 mg.) is easily mistaken for gram (1,000 mg.), also with catastrophic consequences." Instead of a dubious decimal point, the doctor should use a vertical...
Babel's unpublished manuscripts were seized, and are presumed to have been destroyed during World War II. His books disappeared from the shops, and his name was stricken from The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia. He became an Orwellian unperson. Whether Babel was shot immediately after a sham trial or died in a forced-labor camp has never been known with any certainty. After Khrushchev "rehabilitated" Babel's name in 1954, the family received only a certificate giving an official death date of March...
...completed variation of the manuscript may yet be found. The Jewess has never been published in Russia, and it is not difficult to see why. In a nation where anti-Semitism and the assimilation of minorities are sensitive issues, this tale is bound to cause embarrassment. Babel's name may have been rehabilitated, but some of his work remains incorrigible...
...first members of Krishna Consciousness were attracted to the movement when they heard the swami speak in Boston two years ago. One man, whose spiritual name means 'Householder, Servant of Krishna," said of his involvement in the movement. "It's fully satisfying." He has been a member for a year and a half...
...recommended that the neighborhood board name a special five man committee to select his successor...