Word: pill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday approached, Lee realized the pain might be too severe for him to fly home for winter break. On Saturday morning, he went to UHS again where he received an injection of Demerol, a potent narcotic painkiller. He was given more morphine and was handed a Valium pill to take on the plane...
Considering the less-than-ideal practice conditions the Harvard squad has dealt with, the loss was not such a bitter pill to swallow...
...CALLED FRENCH ABORTION PILL, would probably sail through the persnickety approval process at the Food and Drug Administration -- if someone would put in an application. The drug has few side effects, is safer than surgical abortion, and is very effective for ending a pregnancy in the first trimester. Though RU 486 would be a big seller, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf has avoided seeking approval in the U.S. Reason: the militant antiabortion movement, which had supporters in Presidents Reagan and Bush...
...moment, opponents of the amendment, like port-addicted Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, can defend their tenuous position only by offering silly one-liners ("It's a quack pill") and obscure metaphors ("It's as poisonous as the poison that Hannibal carried in his ring or Demosthenes carried in his pen"). That is certainly interesting language, but it does not constitute a valid argument against such a necessary bipartisan measure of fiscal discipline...
...president came out and said it Monday night: taxes on the middle class will go up. Clinton quickly coated this bitter pill with the fact that 70 percent of new revenues will come from those earning more than $100,000. But the indisputable call for middle class tax increases, along with the persistent rumors of a planned energy tax, signal that reality has sunk in at the White House...