Word: suo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British Book Publisher Peter Wolfe ordered soup in an Italian restaurant, and the waiter served it with his thumb in it. Wordlessly sending it back, Wolfe wished he had had enough Italian to call the waiter "a dribbling, senile fool!" or at least snarl at him: "Tolga il suo sudicio dito dalla minestra!" (Get your dirty thumb out of the soup...
...purge the nation's medicine chests of prescription drugs lurking dangerously in bottles unlabeled except for the patient's name and a sequential number slapped on by the druggist. A few physicians got the habit of scrawling on their prescriptions "label as such" or the Latin suo nomine (by its own name). The labeling practice is fairly popular near big medical centers but much less common elsewhere, so probably 90% or more of all U.S. prescriptions are still unlabeled...