Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheer fully that he was set for life "as long as I don't run out of Crosbys." Father Bing himself supplied a word of tactful advice ("Always be on time") and thoughtfully stayed away from the first recording session just in case he might make his son nervous...
...Hero. In the summer of 1936, with Martin's blessing and $50 in his pocket, Snead took the day coach to Pennsylvania for the Hershey Open and his nervous tee-off in big-time tournament golf. His first two drives landed in a stream, but Sam pulled himself together and finished in sixth place. That autumn he went to Florida. At the Miami Open he won $108 and signed a contract to endorse Dunlop golfing equipment for $500 and his clubs and balls. "Ah had $300 and ah was $800 rich," he recalls, rolling his eyes...
...moral need be stated explicitly in the Alabama case, the damage was small, and perhaps the warning was great. In the words of a southern editor, "The pell-mell, thoughtless enactment of this bill was simply a nervous tic from the orthodox fat-head...
...found that it worked against shock and produced the effects of hibernation. Laborit promptly organized a research team to make the most of these effects, and from its combined efforts came the "lytic cocktail." In this, chlorpromazine is combined with Phenergari and Dolosal to block the automatic nervous system...
...combat nausea and vomiting-whether from heaving seas, bumpy airplanes, pregnancy, kidney disease, cancer or heavy X-ray treatment-chlorpromazine seems far superior to other drugs. It is the only one that helps victims of dysautonomia (TIME, June 7), where the cause of vomiting is deep in the nervous system. It is credited with saving several lives in especially stubborn cases of vomiting during pregnancy or from kidney disease. And chlorpromazine seems to be the answer in many cases of persistent hiccuping...