Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual fashion along with Johnny Ray, and college sophomores usually discover that if this country's not much better than most others, it's certainly no worse. Monocle hasn't made that discovery; like a little boy stealing nickles from the collection plate, it's still getting its adrenalin from being sacrilegious--long after the bogeymen have hung up their shadows and retired...
...interested in knowing that your article has already acted like a shot of adrenalin on the people of Puerto Rico, who were wondering if, with the recession continuing, they could continue to run at top speed. TIME'S recognition of their efforts so far is giving them a second wind...
President to Janitor. Sparking the move toward smaller but more numerous prizes is a handful of incentive firms that have made big business out of shooting adrenalin into salesmen. The biggest is Dayton's E. F. MacDonald Co., which last year had a hand in triggering the sale of $1 billion worth of merchandise. MacDonald urges firms to award varied prizes, usually merchandise on a point scale, thus give every salesman some incentive to better his work. Incentive firms are also responsible for the newest gimmick in incentive selling: getting the entire company, from the president to the janitor...
...worse effects than local pain and brief swelling. But some become increasingly more sensitive after successive stings, to the point of a severe, body-wide allergic reaction or even death. Every summer such severe sting reactions are a major problem to doctors; treatment consists in giving antihistamines and adrenalin or a hormone of the cortisone family. But researchers are busy on ways to prevent such cases by helping sensitized victims regain the normal degree of immunity...
Melodrama is a fairly disreputable form of art, and in most cases the sneers of the critics are well earned. The practitioners of this sort of drama usually worry only about stimulating the adrenalin glands of their audiences, while asking them to leave their minds at home. Joseph Hayes, who adapted his original novel both as a play and as the present movie, is different. He knew how to write a well-sustained thriller; but when the shock of that wears off, he leaves the viewer with the sense that the film says something true about the way man thinks...