Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern military school. Apparently urged on by sadistic impulses in his own makeup, De Paris with the unwitting help of four other cadets engineers an elaborate plot against a fifth undergraduate of the school. The plan involves beating him into unconsciousness, funnelling a bottle of whiskey down his throat, and depositing him in the courtyard, where he is eventually found and expelled for drunkenness. It also results in the demoralization of the college, and finally puts an end to De Paris' own career...
...being too Freudian ("Analytically oriented," as they put it) and scarcely interested in anything so humdrum as drugs for the mind. Instead of setting up rigidly controlled studies to evaluate the drugs, they appointed committees that belittled them. Last year Congress rammed $2,000,000 down NIMH's throat and ordered it to get going on a comprehensive tranquilizer evaluation. The work is hopefully scheduled to begin in July-only three years late...
...built for medical purposes: a 6,000,000-volt unit, it generates electrons in a straight line, fires them at precious-metal targets to produce X-rays that can be focused sharply on cancers deep in the body. Of 74 patients treated, with a variety of tumors in the throat, lungs, prostate, kidney, bladder and brain, two-thirds now show no sign of disease, though no cures will be claimed for five years...
...outburst of whimsy, with gesture to match, veteran Comedian Charlie Chaplin, celebrating his 68th birthday at his Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...
...Violinist Isaac Stern bought 200, used two of them in Philadelphia to decorate Conductor Eugene Ormandy and Violinist Zino Francescatti. And last week a TIME reporter who interviewed famed Cellist Pablo Casals (see Music) wired from Puerto Rico: "[He] came out in a white sports shirt open at the throat, brown slacks and brown shoes. On the front of his shirt he had a campaign-type black-and-white button with a picture of Beethoven on it and the words, 'I Like Ludwig...