Word: vomiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soup. Holohan sat down with his back to the stove, and Manini slipped potassium cyanide into Holohan's bowl. Holohan took a few spoonfuls. The soup burned, he said. The major doggedly ate on, said that he felt sick, and reeled upstairs to vomit...
...Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor gave a rule of thumb for judging the prospects of atomic-radiation victims: 1) all who do not vomit should live; 2) those who go on vomiting will die; 3) half of those who stop vomiting within a few hours will live. ¶ Britain's National Health Service started disciplinary action against a dentist who did 14 fillings in 55 minutes-on the ground that...
...What depth of shame do we lie in," muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, "when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust and sigh? It is the dog going back to his vomit, attracted to it by a simple miracle...
...When the monkeys die, the men will vomit black"-and die themselves, of yellow fever. Then came Gorgas and Goethals, and for 40 years the country seemed free of the scourge. Doctors believed that they had banished it entirely from the Americas; they scoffed at the Indian legend about the monkeys...