Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is danger in the carefree use of the most popular "happiness pill," meprobamate (trade-named Miltown and Equanil), warned the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Side effects, including allergic reactions, shaking chills and fever, have been reported; the drug should be used under medical supervision, with the same care as other tranquilizers...
Phony Fog-Pills. For the next perilous months, the realities of war took place in the air. Fantasy possessed the ground. Historian Fleming acknowledges that Evelyn Waugh's fictional persiflage, Put Out More Flags, is an excellent guide to the spirit of the period. The Home Guard went into action, some appearing on horseback with bowler hats and shotguns. Others (including Author Fleming) were organized into guerrilla bands with underground hideouts like "the Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred...
...married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found her in a dingy pensione, seriously ill after a sleeping-pill suicide attempt. He took her to Rome for treatment, and she fled again, led him a chase to Lausanne, Paris, London, then back to Rome. In July 1954 Patiño filed suit for divorce on the grounds of desertion...
...Everything's All Right." That evening-as the doctor and his mistress later told the story-Marie-Claire Evenou complained of a toothache, and her husband affectionately suggested a sleeping pill to ease the pain. As soon as she was asleep, Dr. Evenou rang the phone in Simone's apartment twice. A moment later, his mistress stood beside him in her stocking feet. Dr. Evenou uncovered his wife's breast. "Strike here!" he said. Simone struck, and Marie-Claire woke in a shock. "Simone," she cried. "No. No." Dr. Evenou held her close in his arms. "There...
...sports figures-a few American pro footballers, a former Olympic swimmer from Australia, a Canadian team physician-frankly admitted that the doctor had a point. When he was playing for the Detroit Lions, recalled Quarterback Tom Dublinski, who later switched to the Toronto Argonauts, he once took a pill that pepped him up too much. "It hopped me up to high heaven," said Dublinski with a shudder. "That's no good-a quarterback has to be steady...