Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually the titans are Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum to the fellow who clicks his dial from channel to channel hoping to chance upon something more enervating than Howdy-Doody or the lady wrestlers. Justice Frankfurter must have been trying to convey something of this horror and nausea when, in his decision the other day, he expressed the fear that television may be a "new Barbarism parading as scientific progress." He concluded that along with radio, television could no doubt "enlarge man's horizon, but by making him a captive listener it may make for his spiritual impoverishment...
...they separated. Meanwhile, Bierce went on writing grotesque and macabre tales. In one, a father is decapitated by a mowing machine, in another a man bashes in his wife's head with a mallet, in a third a dog gnaws on the bones of a child. His general nausea for mankind erupted into the epigrams of The Devil's Dictionary. Samples...
...keep him under control definitely implies an effect from eat ing hormone-treated chickens which just is not so ... A person could take a whole pel let used in treating chickens . . . and it would have no effect on him. There is a chance that he might have a slight nausea for a short time. In order to have any effect on his sexual activity, a pellet would need to be consumed daily, or possibly even twice daily, for at least five or six days. We can't quite imagine anyone eating that number of chicken necks or heads, even...
...city phenomenon. And police and lawmakers have begun to crack down. In the last few months, both New York and Chicago have put more & more policemen to tracking down peddlers. New York schoolteachers have been instructed to look for symptoms of addiction, such as yawning, nausea, watery eyes, among their students. Even more to the point: a bill currently before the Illinois legislature which could send dope peddlers to prison for life for selling narcotics to a minor...
...Cass urged anyone with such symptoms as general weakness, nausea, or hacing coughs to stop at the Hygiene Building for a check-up and rest...