Word: penicillins
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...handwriting on the wall. After a long Belshazzar's feast of energy gluttony, it seemed, Americans were being called to a bitter reckoning. The winter loomed as a grim season of cold bedrooms and chilly classrooms, of painful shortages of oil-related products ranging from phonograph records to penicillin, of cramped inability to travel, of shuttered factories and high unemployment. And that supposedly would be only the start of a new lifestyle of thrift, sharing and self-denial -spiritually cathartic, perhaps, but hardly very comfortable...
...about penicillin!" one doctor responds. "Talking to parents or patients was not our thing," the intern muses. "We were not very good with death." A nurse agrees: "You're all so smug and self-centered and unapproachable...
...some rites of passage. "If we found out somebody was a virgin," says one A. & M. graduate, "we'd kidnap him, tie him up on the floorboard, and take him to the ranch." So routine were evenings at Edna's that the school began to provide penicillin free...
Among her most valued treasures, Marlene Dietrich explained to the London Daily Express, is a bit of penicillin culture, the first ever developed by the late Sir Alexander Fleming. How did she win this memento? "When I saw how his discovery saved the lives of soldiers who had lain in the mud for days, I had to see him with my own eyes. A meeting was arranged-a dinner party, I cooked. We became very close friends," she explained. "Men are better than women," Marlene went on. "I fancy myself as probably having more of a male brain...
...vows "I'm not going to smoke in real life-Humphrey Bogart died from it." Harder than smoking was a scene where she had to go up to a candy counter and say, "Can I have some Juicy Fruit gum, please?" She had flu, was "full of penicillin, and my mind was spinning." Bogdanovich decided he wanted her to ask for Dentyne. "I told him, 'You can't do that. I'm sick. I've learned my lines and I can't do it over.' " But she did 43 takes...