Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such specialists and on his own preferences, Goddard brusquely reversed Sadusk in a drumfire series of decisions which drastically restricted the use of long-acting sulfa drugs, attacked the inflated advertising for Peritrate (a painkiller for angina pectoris), and flatly forbade the further manufacture of over-the-counter throat lozenges containing antibiotics. He also promised a congressional committee that FDA would promptly tackle the herculean task of checking the efficacy of 3,000 drugs marketed between...
...trois with a Belgian couple in London, dictating his diary to his host's wife and patting the heads of her nine children. Finally discharged from the consular service for "inattention to duty," he lived on with the Belgian widow, under sentence of death from cancer of the throat. In 1902, he died at 65 in the best Western tradition, with his boots on and almost broke: leaving an estate of $1,800 and a story in progress on his table...
...those solid finishers who always manage to come through in the clutch, may let the faster sprinters set the pace before moving up in the last 50 yards. He went to the Easterns last year as the favorite, but could not compete because of a high fever and strept throat...
Orange County was almost as hard-hit; then the epidemic spread through Santa Cruz and Santa Clara to the Bay Area and Sacramento, until an estimated 4,000,000 Californians were laid low with fever, headache, cough, sore throat and aching muscles. Inevitably, in a few cases the flu led to pneumonia, mostly among infants or oldsters whose health was poor to begin with. Among the other victims was Susan Ann Lombardo, 26, the bandleader's niece. There was no way to tell when the California epidemic would pass its peak...
...Nazi background. Even time is kept out of his attic world. The only one who can see him is Leni, his sister, who brings him his meals and loves him incestuously. To keep Frantz for herself, Leni refuses to tell him that his father is to die of throat cancer in six months and wants...