Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they waited in a Santiago jail for the final decision on their asylum appeal, Antonio's cash quickly eased the rigors of incarceration. The cells were provided with comfortable beds; there was wine aplenty, after-hours dinner parties for their friends, and free use of the penitentiary telephones. Jorge & Co. paid some of Chile's highest-priced lawyers at least $56,000 to fight Argentina's extradition attempts...
...action left Halton as director of the Aquinas Foundation, a Roman Catholic student organization, but canceled his privileges to use university facilities. The university's decision, insisted Goheen, "was not an issue of academic freedom." Said he: "Under claims of advancing the pursuit of truth, [Father Halton] has resorted to irresponsible attacks upon the intellectual integrity of faculty members. For tactics of this sort, no university devoted to freedom of rational inquiry and debate need make a home...
...large, doctors and nurses got their shots early, as recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. The armed forces, on a separate allocation, were getting vaccine as fast as they could use it. Beyond that, the PHS planners' hope that manufacturers would funnel the vaccine to essential civilians was generally ignored. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney held a conclave of experts in Washington, issued another hopeful suggestion: that manufacturers would henceforth comply with allocation recommendations by state health departments...
...tourniquet is now "mentioned principally to discourage its use," which should be only for "severe, life-threatening hemorrhage that cannot be controlled by other means," i.e., only for massive arterial bleeding, never for venous bleeding. Once in place, it should not be loosened every 15 minutes (as formerly advised), but left tight until a physician takes over. Alternative to the tourniquet: pressure by hand over the wound, or on the artery above the wound...
Dangerous penicillin reactions, in patients with a special sensitivity to the drug, can range from fever, itching and swollen joints to sudden death from anaphylactic shock, an extreme allergic reaction.* Previous tests for penicillin sensitivity have been too slow and cumbersome for everyday use, but a new test is now available that quickly screens out potentially fatal cases...