Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus, in parts of the U.S. where heroin has become difficult to get or too expensive, a cheap-and dangerous-substitute has taken its place. Known as Ts and Blues, it is a mixture of Talwin, a morphine-like painkiller sold only by prescription, and Pyribenzamine, a blue antihistamine tablet available over the counter. They are stolen and sold to junkies for about $10 a pair, one-quarter the price of a hit of heroin. Mixed, dissolved and injected, they give a heroin-like rush-and quickly produce a heroin-like dependency. Says a drug addict in New Orleans...
...warm feeling among the people of the town that he had run against as a campaign issue. On the plane flight to California, he prepared for his next big event in the city, his Inaugural Address. Said he after the flight: "I'm several yellow pages into a tablet that I was working on all the way on the plane, but I haven't come to that magic page-the last one." Once home, he watched the Senate confirmation hearings of his Cabinet nominees on television. Leaving his barbershop on Friday, Reagan commented on Haig's performance...
...homunculus and even offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout Rabbi Judah Loew was reported to have created out of clay a giant robot known as a golem. This figure, which came to life when a tablet with a divine name, shem, was placed in its mouth, was supposed to protect the Jews from persecution, but some accounts claim that its masters tried to use it for unworthy purposes, and others report that it turned upon its creators...
Modern Government does not run on military and office equipment alone. Through the warehouse come potter's wheels, musical instruments, looms, stretchers, record players, 50-lb. boxes of nails, humidity gauges, bottles of chemicals, screwdrivers and pliers of every shape and size, salt-tablet dispensers, ear slugs, potato peelers, X-ray film projectors, buckets of paint, faucets, even 59 forceps for delivering babies...
...cheaply produced tablet free from serious side-effects, dapsone has become the world's chief method of combating leprosy. Although the bacteria causing HD display increasing signs of developing resistance to the drug, dapsone remains an effective means of arresting the illness when a patient suffers from the pure-tuberculoid strain, a less-severe type of HD. Victims with this form of illness can usually expect to lead perfectly normal lives without any of the scars and deformities ordinarily associated with leprosy, if doctors diagnose the condition at an early stage...