Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered by the publishers) to a three-man fact-finding committee. Last week the fact finders announced their verdict (with the union member dissenting) : a $3.75 weekly package increase, i.e., just what the publishers originally offered before the strike took place. This week the engravers accepted the "distasteful bitter pill" by a vote...
...this case, it means something resembling clever crusading journalism, with a weather eye on the circulation figures. There is a moral in Producer Walter Wanger's tale: the need for reform in U.S. penal institutions is critical. The moral is slickly coated with violence, however, and the pill should go down easy with the mass public...
...asked the old ex-Premier. "You didn't have to, you know." "But." answered Pella, "it was too bitter a pill to swallow." De Gasperi, who had worked for months to keep party and Pella together, replied sadly: "If you only, knew how many bitter pills you. Pella, have made me swallow." Within 24 hours. Pella boarded a northbound train for Biello and his aged mother. "Now," said he. "I can do some skiing...
...Testing a new drug by comparing its effects with those of sugar pills may give confusing results. Dr. Stewart Wolf, reporting on experiments at Manhattan's New York Hospital, told how batches of a new drug and sugar pills were bottled and labeled with code numbers so that not even the doctors knew when a patient was getting which. Just as many patients felt lightheaded, drowsy or lost their appetite on sugar pills as on the drug. One suffered "overwhelming weakness, palpitation and nausea" within a few minutes of taking either. Another had pain, diarrhea, itching and swelling...
...Club, dedicated to the age of chivalry, boasts more than 40 members, all of whom go through an elaborate system of probation, starting as pilgrims and gradually working up to burgher, squire and knight. They bear special names: e.g., a Hollywood physician is known as Knight Hypocrates or the Pill Peddler. Members carry swords and wear helmets, use what they consider to be antique language ("gnaw" for eat, "torch" for cigar), and engage in musical and beer-drinking contests. In the works: a club house with moat and drawbridge...