Word: poison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the Italian press cried for school reform Said the Demo-Christian Il Popolo: "The youth of today finds his moral support in a society of comic books movies and shows . . . where men & women shoot and poison, steal and assault; the representation of a jungle world." We are all convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless...
Insidious Poison. This much may be all right, says Dr. Bell, but beyond that-beware. At a blood-alcohol level of about 50 milligrams, he finds there are usually "only mild sedative effects" of the type seen in ordinary social drinking. Between 50 and 150 milligrams there is a drop in tension and lowering of inhibitions, and many people begin to lose control of physical movements. Above 150, everybody has lost some control and is unsafe behind a wheel; at 300 milligrams (often below) comes unconsciousness, and between 500 and 700 death...
...Mayo Clinic's Dr. P. T. Sloss. The trouble is most likely to develop on the fourth day of treatment with aureomycin or terramycin. The drugs kill many of the bacteria normally found in the intestine, and give a chance for resistant strains of staphylococci to multiply and poison the system. In such cases (so far, rare), the patient gets symptoms like those of cholera, and will die in a day or two, Dr. Sloss said, unless the drugs are promptly stopped. Effective drug against the staphylococcus bugs: erythromycin...
...18th century answer ready: he locks complainers in a garret until they waste away. Then he buries them in the garden. Luckily, Sabrina does not waste away easily. She is still in fine shape when she is rescued by Sir John Templar's lawyer, who has forethoughtedly dropped poison in Sir William's rum. Indeed, the lawyer is so inflamed by Sabrina that he abducts her to Belgium, where he ties her daily to a bedpost and flogs her. Author Marshall's descriptions of these whippings seem almost pathological-until it is recalled that she is trying...
...first volunteered for the army, but was persuaded by his associates that he could contribute more to the Allied cause as a researcher than as a slightly-underweight and very academic doughboy. Dutifully he proceeded to a small factory in Willoughby, Ohio where the army was developing poison gas. He worked out a method of preparing mustard gas on a large scale, and contributed to the original discovery of deadly Lewisite...