Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble with streptomycin is that it may make patients dizzy. So far, the new neomycin has had only a slight harmful effect, or none at all, on laboratory animals. Like penicillin, neomycin may possibly work when taken by mouth. Streptomycin must be injected. But headline writers who shout that neomycin is already a better drug for tuberculosis than streptomycin get a pained look from Dr. Waksman. He does not know yet when tests on human patients can get started...
...company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow and had a drink in it, I would toast-Henry Blanke [Treasure's self-effacing producer...
...glanced at his watch; five o'clock. Late again for cocktails. Vag broke into a slight sweat as he took a last look at the practice. Well, even if he didn't help out the team this spring, he could always kick points for Art Valpey next fall...
...slight edge crept into his voice when someone brought up the subject of the Dixiecrat rebels. They are not good Democrats, Harry Truman snapped. But except for that one outburst his whole mood was one of friendly conciliation...
...Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments, Arévalo exulted: "I don't have to paddle, I'm going downstream...