Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goof ball is not a marijuana smoker (weed-head, viper, tea-hound, herb). A goof ball is a nemmie (from Nembutal, trade name for a certain barbiturate), Geronimo, bomber, or any other barbiturate or sleeping pill...
Apart from battle wounds, the greatest medical problems in Korea today are malaria, dysentery and flies. This month the Army brought out a new drug, a large white pill which seems to be both a preventive and cure for malaria, and has to be taken only once a week. Halazone tablets [to purify water], which were used in the last war, offer protection against one source of dysentery. DDT is effective against the flies, but so far it has been in critical supply in Korea, and most soldiers have scratched themselves into infections from the maddening bites...
...treaty. Following recent Russian announcements that no more German prisoners of war would be repatriated and that Eastern Germany would continue to pay reparations to Russia for another 15 years, the deal would further embitter Germans against Communism. But Washington believed that Moscow would try to sugar the pill for Germans by withdrawing Russian occupation troops from Germany, which would mean nothing since Russian interests in East Germany are well safeguarded by a German Communist army (TIME...
Supporting the measure were Councilors Lynch, John J. Foley, Thomas M. McNamara, Hyman Pill, and Edward J. Sullivan. Lined up in opposition were Mayor Crane, Joseph A. DeGugliemo '29, W. Donnison Swan '17, and Chestor A. Higley...
Wind & Dollars. By the time it ends (with the millennium safely postponed by Government control of the pill), Author Norris has jabbed his needle left & right, high & low, popping gas pockets all over the current scene. Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine...