Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disulfiram (Antabuse) was hailed by Danish doctors as a wonder drug for alcoholism, plant physicians began hearing complaints that workers recently exposed to dust in the manufacture of calcium cyanamide*could not take a drink-it made them sick. Disulfiram proved a disappointment: it was too dangerous for widespread use, required a doctor's close supervision. But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and far safer...
...more than anything else was the way he spoke of God out of actual personal knowledge-not in terms of speculation or theology. My father was a Presbyterian minister, and I studied for the ministry until the dogmas got me down. I still have not much use for the theologians. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a complicated thing...
...anybody's private property, either. Nothing makes me more disgusted than the egotism of people who think they can use God-to make it stop raining on the day of the picnic, or spare their lives in a disaster. My family and I were in a train wreck a while ago in France. I had taken two of my children into the dining car ahead for some ice cream, and we were served unusually quickly-which meant that just before the wreck we had left the car, in which a great many people were killed. Some of my Christian...
Atkinson quickly learned better, graduated from the "leaky roof" circuit to the big time, became one of the finest riders in racing, was national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy...
...gotta use a little finesse," said one steel broker. "One summer three men I was tryin' to sell came to town. One man was quite elderly; I was afraid he'd die on me ... When I made my move I found out the two younger men were the ones that had to be impressed. I told the girls there's to be no mention of money ... to just get ga-ga over the whole thing . . . The young men's egos were at the bursting point. The deal netted me about...