Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston doctors reported in the A.M.A. Journal that a drug known as Compound 2601-A is the best thing they have found for controlling the nausea which often follows the taking of drugs, and occurs regularly in such disorders as cancer, ear inflammation and uremia. Also, 2601-A straightens out drinkers who have too violent a reaction from the combination of alcohol and disulfiram (Antabuse...
...Tight suggests unsteadiness in ordinary physical activities, or noticeable aggressiveness, or oversolicitousness, or loss of control over social amenities or of verbal accuracy, or slight nausea...
...movies, eyes point at the screen and focus on the screen . . . 3-D techniques demand that the human turn his eyes inward, much nearer than the screen for which he is focused. Then he has a choice of letting the picture blur, seeing the object double, having nausea, dizziness or "eye-strain," or staying away from...
Psychiatrist Harold Rosen cites this one: a man of 26 had been having severe spells of nausea and dizziness. He was in a hospital and was being considered for ear-nerve surgery. A psychiatrist suspected an emotional basis for the illness, but could not track it down. It took eight minutes to hypnotize the patient, and while in the trance, he had one of his spells, with "the shakes." In a second session he reported seeing a shipwreck, but tried to ignore it. At last, prodded by the therapist, he recalled and relived his own shipwreck of seven years before...
...Ideology. Stalin learned something from the purges: the power that ideas have over men's minds. Since the death of Lenin he had repeated, to the point of nausea, the old Leninist slogans. Now he began to develop the myth of Leninist-Stalinist infallibility. Every Soviet writer, poet, musician and painter was expected to devote his energies to enlarging the myth by incessant repetition. The highest peak in Russia was named for him, as were at least 15 towns, innumerable factories and streets. Copies of his collected works were printed in scores of millions. A new metal was called...