Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short order, Stone found himself flooded with clients eager to try his new romantic modern architecture. In the Stuart Co. building in Pasadena, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 20), Stone tried his grille as a solution to Southern California's climate, turned out a pill factory with such Tiffany & Co. glitter that one leading California architect said: "This building records all the gains of modern architecture and yet remains a romantic building." In a dormitory for the University of South Carolina, Stone, along with Architect Thomas Harmon, used the grille as a façade sheathing a monolithic block with housing...
...listless U.S. economy the Federal Reserve slipped another pep pill. For the second time in a month FRB last week announced a ½% reduction in the required reserves of member banks (down to 19% for central city banks, 17% for reserve city banks, 11% for country banks), thus freeing a potential $3 billion in bank credit for additional loans. Said a top FRBman: "Our purpose is simple: to create conditions still more favorable to recovery...
Your Jan. 27 article on chiropody-podiatry must have been authored by a 90-year-old hermit. No one would consider calling a chiropodist-podiatrist a "corn cutter" any more than they would consider calling Dr. Jonas Salk a "pill pusher...
...drug company) ran half-page ads showing men and women with agonized faces, clutching swollen heads and moaning for Atraxin. Daiichi and competitors put up billboards at Tokyo's busiest intersections, where stalled motorists and scared-running pedestrians were urged to help themselves to "cope" by taking a pill. There was even a suggestion (eventually dropped) that similar ads be placed at railroad crossings, bridges and volcano craters, the meccas of the suicide-minded. (Several attempts to commit suicide with overdoses of tranquilizers have failed.) Tranki pills have proved especially popular with students cramming to pass the tough exams...
...killing the whole country with kindness. But before that can happen, the Englishman contrives, through the agency of some serviceable Communists, to kill the American. The book ended there, with the Englishman feeling very little pain. But the picture goes on, in a foolishly obvious attempt to sugar the pill so that U.S. moviegoers will swallow it, to take it all back about the American. It turns out he was not really responsible for the bomb that exploded in the crowd of shoppers-and so on. The Englishman, it seems, has simply been duped by the Communists. "I wish someone...