Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four weeks than sixteen? Certainly undergraduates believe this is the case, since they do the work for most courses in far less than four weeks. The trouble with their realistic understanding of the need for concentrated doses is that they try to concentrate four doses into one reading period pill...
...Germany Off Limits is already a bestseller. The crass coating of sex and corn on this propaganda pill, plus the easygoing American tendency to let bygones be bygones, may make the book almost as successful in the U.S., although it is rubbish. Off Limits mounts hundreds of unrelated, postage-stamp vignettes of the occupation years 1945 to 1951 side by side. Amid the meandering plots and subplots, readers will meet the following unattractive Americans: an intelligence major who forms a sado-masochistic liaison with the Ile Koch-like widow of a concentration-camp commandant, a Jewish captain who allows...
Councilor John D. Lynch gave the plan full approval, stating, "I believe in letting people park their cars anywhere, anytime." The other councilors in favor of Vellucci's proposal were Hyman Pill, Charles A. Watson, and Thomas M. McNamara. The proposal is under consideration by the Council's Ordinance Committee...
...phony doctor (in real life a member of Actors Equity) slips into a white smock, faces the camera, and the biggest gasoline-torch medicine show in history has begun. A cigarette is soothing to the T-Zone. A miracle pill will start the natural flow of liver bile. Try a certain elixir for worn-out blood-and a toothpaste for a brave new cavity-free world...
...Engineer Alan Adair, 30, unhappily divorced and tired of life, parked his car alongside Los Angeles' Ballona Creek one evening and washed down a handful of barbiturate sleeping pills with milk. Then he made notes: "7:26. Now I wonder how long it will take ... 7:31. Everyone wonders what it is like to die. I'm going to find out. 7:39. I can barely see." When police spotted the car at 2:45 a.m., Adair was in a deep coma. Fortunately, his record told doctors at Santa Monica Hospital how much barbiturate he had taken...