Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jessie's revelation that this Saturday night will be her last comes without anger, confrontation, hysterics or tears. As she cleans and oils the revolver with which she will do the deed, she simply and quietly informs her mother that she is about to kill herself. This is no rash decision--she has been thinking about it "on and off" for no less than 10 years; "on all the time," since the previous Christmas...
...some leading thinkers. Under the influence of opium, wrote Dr. George Wood, the president of the American Philosophical Society, in 1868, "the intellectual and imaginative faculties are raised to the highest point compatible with individual capacity." Doctors began prescribing opium- based concoctions for every malady from headache to skin rash. Respectable Victorian ladies calmed their babies with narcotic potions, such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Hooper's Anodyne, the Infant's Friend. Heroin, a morphine derivative, was sold legally at the turn of the century in drugstores and by mail-order catalogs and traveling salesmen...
Authorities blame a rash of fires this year on arson, severe summer drought and the seasonal mistral wind that has whipped flames across dry southern forests. After tour ing the area, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac proposed a two-year program to improve the region's ability to fight and prevent fires. But for much of the south, the proposal came too late...
About 200 protesters gathered at Cambridge City Hall yesterday evening to rally against U.S. aid to Nicaragua and a rash of break-ins in the offices of local liberal political organizations...
...will keep him on this side of the Atlantic for the summer. "I wasn't really worried, but they thought it was possible something would happen," he says. Although his parents had offered to help pay for his trip as a graduation gift, after the rash of terrorist incidents they told him they would only help pay for his vacation if he stayed on this continent...