Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ocean counties in southern New Jersey, other bulletins poured in to the state department of health. By week's end, the department reported that a strange and deadly malady was reaching alarming proportions: 19 people had been hospitalized, nine had died. The symptoms were the same: headache, nausea, delirium, then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death...
...chlorpropamide and metahexamide, the proportions were about the same-but not the patients: some who did poorly on tolbutamide responded to one of the other drugs, and a few who failed on two responded to the third. There was no denying that side effects (skin rashes, nausea, vomiting, heartburn) were more common with chlorpropamide and metahexamide, and there were a few cases of liver damage. Concluded cautious Dr. Bradley: "Further cautious trial appears justified...
...have also raised British blood pressure. "I feel inclined to apologize to all decent Americans for sending them work in such sickening bad taste," wrote the London Observer's Critic C. A. Lejeune after seeing Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein. This hardly worried Colonel ("The King of Nausea") Carreras. Frankenstein's production cost: $270,000. Its worldwide gross: $7,500,000. Net profit for Hammer...
...that William K. Zinsser reviewed films for the New York Herald Tribune, he habitually criticizedt the movies with a boldness commendable but rare in his breed. If Zinsser thought a movie was poor, he said so. A Farewell to Arms was, in his view, "vulgar to the point of nausea." He found South Pacific to be "arty and distracting." Ten days after this last comment ran in the Herald Tribune, the disrespectful Zinsser was no longer reviewing movies; he was writing editorials...
...another reason dictates the wise policy the Coop has chosen. To sell cheap liquor, a co-operative society apparently must put its own label on the goods. The repugnance of being served a hooker of Old Co-operative Rotgut is matched only by the nausea which would be a certain aftermath. Even supposing the Coop could stock a line of palatable intoxicants, one would still object to unfamiliar and untried brands. In opening a Budweiser, one knows what he is getting into. But who dares guess what would go into a Pale Bundy...